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Today’s professional pest control operators (PCOs) often use gel bait insecticides to control and eliminate small ants from homes. This requires the placement of small beads of gel bait, primarily in areas where ants have been seen feeding or trailing. The bait may be placed on small pieces of cardboard or another type of holder, or it may be contained inside an ant bait station.
Preferred Method
Bait is the preferred method of control because, in order to solve an ant problem, you must first eliminate the ants you don’t see to get rid of the ants you do see. The ants that you see are worker ants. Their job is to find food and take it back to the nest to feed the queen and her young, who are being groomed as the next generation of worker ants.
If the worker ants you see are sprayed and killed, the colony will simply send out more workers to take their place. So instead, ant bait is placed along the trails the ants follow. The workers find the bait, carry it back to the nest, and feed the queen, eliminating her and future populations.
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Coppery-brown and black
3.2mm long
10 segment antennas with 2 segmented clubs
Tend to build large mound nests that are flattened and irregular in shape.
Nest locations can be a mound of up to 40 cm or next to objects found on the ground
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Shiny and black.
2.5 – 3mm long.
Especially attracted to sweet foods
Known to tent to aphids and bugs on domestic plants
Can be agressive towards other species of ant if provoked
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Pale/Translucent legs and abdomen.
1.5mm long
Usually enter buildings on trails that make they along the ground
Can enter houses by trailing on utility lines
Highly adaptable nesters, capable of living outdoors and indoors
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Workers 1.5–2mm long, yellow-brown with brown abdomen.
Black eyes, two small segments at the pedicel.
Able to comfortably reside in temperature controlled buildings
One of the most difficult indoor pests to control
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Black but also has black and red variants
2.5cm long
Can damage wood by hollowing it out for nesting
Nests likely to be found in wood dampened by water leaks
If a nest is nearby, the pest will often respond by making a “rustling” sound within the nest, similar to the crinkling of cellophane
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Dark brown.
2.5 – 3.3mm.
Antennae are with 12 segments and without club
Highly adaptable, living in both moist and dry habitats
Do not build nests or mounds, but instead live in yard waste, tree cavities, plants, soil under trash or stones, and inside electrical equipment and buildings
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