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If your home is experiencing an ant invasion, it's time to call Mares Exterminating. You can rely on us for prompt, professional ant control services. We have proven solutions for all types of ants, so call today for your free consultation.
Ants are considered social insects because they inhabit large nests. Despite being considered social, few humans want to socialize with them!
Ants rank as one of the most difficult insect species to control. There are many varieties of ants, and they can reside just about anywhere.
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They prefer nesting sites that are inaccessible to predators, and that's one of the reasons they're so difficult to control. The queens lay up to 800 eggs at a time, and only the foraging ants leave the nest to gather food. The only effective solutions include destroying the queen and the colony.
The best way to avoid an ant infestation is to prevent it from beginning by making your home uninteresting to ants and difficult to enter. In general, ants love warm, moist environments with easy access to food. If you can deprive them of those elements, you're already ahead of the game.
In our area, acrobat ants are fairly common. These small, shiny, black or brown insects occasionally walk on their forelegs and raise their distinctive, heart-shaped abdomens over their heads. They look like they're doing handstands, so we call them acrobat ants.
If you've previously had a carpenter ant infestation, acrobat ants may move into the empty wood gallery or nest site. They may also nest in rotting or water-damaged wood. If you spot them, you could have a leak.
Acrobat ants never attack sound wood, and they do very little structural damage. You may notice grayish bits of fine sawdust-like material being pushed out from under a floor joint or from behind a wall void. It may resemble mouse damage and nesting, but it's actually the ants' excrement.
Whenever you suspect something is living in the walls of your home, call the professionals at Mares Exterminating. We'll diagnose the problem and recommend an effective solution.
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Highly recommend Mares Exterminating in Poquoson!
They were able to work us in tonight after my terrifying experience with tons of spiders outside of our house. I didn't even know they could spray at night, but Bud had all the lights and equipment. (That's one brave soul!).
It took about an hour, and he agreed we definitely had a problem. He captured three of the biggest ones to show me.
It was $155 for two treatments. Worth. Every. Penny.
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