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Ant Removal Services

We provide services to safely remove troublesome ants and ant nests from your property. With Same Day Call Out, we tackle any ant problems so you don’t have to.

We Provide:

  • Ant Removal
  • Ant Nest Removal
  • Fully Licensed Service
  • Guaranteed Results
  • Same day call out
  • Call now for free Ant removal advice

01202 042814

We tailor our service to our clients needs so you can have peace of mind that you’ll be receiving a pest control service that you can trust. We are Trading Standards Approved, fully insured and all our staff are fully qualified and are CRB cleared.

As well as offering domestic pest contol we also offer a full range of commercial pest control services.

Take a look at our full range of Pest Control Services.

Contact a member of our team on 01202 042814 to discuss our range of residential pest control services, we aim to be at your property within 90 minutes of your call!

How To Identify An Ant

Ant control can be difficult, and ant’s behaviour can lead to big headaches for you and your home. Here are the things you should know:

  • Entry: Ants can enter through even the tiniest of cracks, seeking water and sweet or greasy food substances in the kitchen, pantry or storeroom areas.
  • Scent trails: Ants leave an invisible chemical trail which contains pheromones for others to follow once they locate the food source.
  • Nest locations: They can nest just about anywhere in and around your house; in lawns, walls, stumps, even under foundations.
  • Colony size: Colonies numbers range from 300,000 to 500,000, and whole colonies can uproot and relocate quickly when threatened.
  • Colony Lifetime: A colony can live a relatively long lifetime. Worker ants may live 7 years, while the queen may live as long as 15 years.
  • ‘Do-it-yourself’ ineffectiveness: Most ‘do-it-yourself’ ant control approaches will only kill the ants you see. Only truly effective treatments can penetrate and destroy nests to help prevent these pests from returning. Also, home remedies don’t account for the fact that different kinds of ant infestations require different treatments.

Ant Life Cycle

The ant life cycle has four distinct and very different life stages: egg, larvae, pupae and adult. This is known as complete metamorphosis. It generally takes from several weeks to several months to complete the life cycle, depending upon the ant species and environmental factors.

Eggs

A female ant that successfully mates with a male ant will become a queen ant that lays eggs. Fertile queens select a sheltered place to build a nest (colony) and begin laying eggs. Ant eggs are very small – only about a half of a millimeter in diameter. The eggs are also oval, white and transparent.

Larvae

After about 1-2 weeks in the egg stage, a grub-like, legless ant larvae hatches. This stage has a voracious appetite, and the adult ants spend much of their time feeding the larvae with food and liquids they digest and regurgitate.

Pupae

After the larvae molts and shed their skin, they change into the pupal stage. Pupae appear somewhat like adults except their legs and antennae are folded and pressed against the pupal body. Initially, ant pupae are usually white, but slowly become darker in colour as they age. Depending upon the ant species, pupae may be housed in a protective cocoon.

Adult

Adult

Once the pupal stage is complete, the adult ant comes on the scene. At the time of emergence, the adult ant is fully grown, but darkens in colour as it ages. Adult ants are one of three different colony castes; queens, workers or males. Queens are fertile females that lay all the eggs in a colony. Workers are females that do not reproduce but do gather food, feed the larvae and maintain and clean the nest. Workers are wingless, and it is the worker stage that is seen foraging around for food or defending the colony from intruders. The male ants are winged, but their only job is to mate with the queens during the swarming process.

What Pest Detective Does

We have many years experience, so after an in depth discussion over the phone, our aim is to resolve your problem quickly and efficiently.

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