Ant extermination - Pest Control Berkeley
Ants are incredibly small creatures by themselves but when ants show up they show up in numbers! They are incredibly social things and the sight of a few ants is a very likely indicator that many many more are close by. A colony of ants may be just outside or inside your home and the presence of worker ants in your home shows the colony is seeking a viable food source. Your pantry may very soon be under siege by hordes of hungry ants with many reinforcements on the way.
When a food source is found by individuals in the colony they excrete a scent to alert others nearby to the location of the food. This is why they can infest your food before you even notice them. There are many different types of ants that are common sites in the Berkeley, area. Due to the diverse nature and different environments, there are different types of ants that fare better in certain niches than others. The kinds of ants that bother homeowners in Berkeley, CA and are the cause for a regular amount of calls for an ant exterminator are: fire ants, sugar ants, house ants, flying ants, carpenter ants, and destroying ant colonies. If you are having any type of ant problem and desperately need a professional ant exterminator to come by and kill your ants, get a free quote for ant control and call (510) 900-8593 |
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When an ant, or even a few ants begin to locate a food source or possibly good shelter, they will investigate for themselves as well as bring other ants along for the journey. If ants find a source of food in your home or business, they will leave behind them a scented trail on the way back to their colony so other ants can follow the trail and find the food for themselves.
Ants will commonly go after sugar food and starchy foods, but as we know, they will eat pretty much anything that they will consider edible. This includes meats, fruits, flour products, desert products, rotting mold, feces, grease, and everything in between. If there is something out that an ant can take back to his colony and feed the rest of them, they will take advantage of that and can become a terrible problem infestation. If there are ants in your home, there are two different possibilities for where the infestation of ants lie. Some ants will decide it is worth it to set up shelter in your home since it is close to their desired food source, and it is worth staying. The more severe ant infestations occur when ants are outside of your home and have developed a large colony that often will take place underground. Ant hills may be a a common site for where a large amount of the ants lie, but this is usually a sign that there are many more ants around, and maybe ant hills or colonies of ants that are harder to find. Since many ants live underground, they just need an access point to get to their colony, and they are more than capable of setting up intricate underground tunnels for their colony to utilize and as a means of bringing back a food source to feed the others.
Ant colonies are usually composed of at least ten ants and grow as large as hundreds of ants, thousands of ants, and even millions of ants! In an ant colony, there is usually a designated queen ant, or queen ants that do the major reproducing for the colony, and there are drone ants, worker ants, and soldier ants that will do her bidding and provide food, protection, and other missions for the benefit of the ant colony. All ant colonies start with a small number of ants, but if there is a few reproducing queens around, ant infestations can create major pest problems for commercial businesses, residential homeowners, and anyone else in the proximity. If you see ants around, more than likely, you have only spotted the soldiers, drones, or worker ants of the group. These are the ones that go out scavenging for food, or in the case of some of the stinging ant types, go out in search of the kill for the group, in particular, that of fire ants. So when you see ants in your kitchen, in the garage, or anywhere else on a property, more than likely, these ants aren't where your problem lies. The ants that need to be exterminated are likely not seen and probably underground. For you to properly quell an ant infestation in Berkeley, CA, you must take care of the root of the problem which is the reproducing queen underground along with all of her minions by her side. Many ant infestations are hard to find due to their awareness that they are safer underground than above ground. If you want all of your ants exterminated, whether it be fire ants, carpenter ants, little sugar ants, or flying ants, than you must kill the queen ants and prevent her from having any more ant offspring for you to be sure that you will not have many more ants in your future.
To properly take care of ant infestations, there are different ways to go about it. Our ant exterminators, following their ant inspection will diagnose your ant problem, locate the root of the infestation by locating all ant hills and other hidden access points, and then come to a conclusion on the proper way to kill ants on your property. There are different ways that we go about killing ants, and it certainly depends on how big your ant infestation is and what kind of ants that they are, and whether or not there is something preventable that could have been done and that we can do to prevent another ant infestation in the future.
One ant exterminator technique that we may use is that of ant baiting. Ant baiting is the process of using bait that an ant will treat like food, and instead of just ingesting it for themselves, which they will do, they will also take that bait back to their colony and feed it to their fellow ant friends and family. Along with taking that food back, they will leave a scented trail that other ants can follow to find the ant bait, and they will also do the same, ingesting, and feeding the rest of their colony. The ant bait takes a few days to actually kill the ants, so it gives them some time to hopefully feed all of the other ants and kill them too. Our greatest hope in this process is that they will feed the queen ants the poisoned bait and it will kill the reproducing queen as well.
Another ant technique is spraying the ants. Spraying ants is usually done for the ants that are visible on the surface, and if we are able to locate where the ant infestations are, in ant hills, underground, or in your house, we will deploy professional pest control approved sprays that will kill ants on the spot. If we find the location of the ant hills and other communal ant sources, we blast them to death and totally exterminate all of your ants on the spot. While ant spraying is a might effective technique, it only kills the visible ants and when used in conjunction with ant baiting, the likelihood of ant extermination is better.
Ant prevention techniques are often applied following our extermination. We utilize special insect sprays that we will coat the exterior part of your property with that will kill insects on the spot and prevent them from venturing that area again in the future. This will help with other insects as well from entering your home, such as cockroaches, fleas, beetles, and other crawling insects. We coat any entry/access points in your home as well as other notable locations and help prevent any future ant outbreaks.
If you are looking for the best ant extermination company in Berkeley, CA, Pest Control Berkeley is the one to call. We are well recognized in the Bay Area for our ant control techniques and would love to help your problems that you may be experiencing as well. Call us today to get a free quote and dial (510) 900-8593 to get the top ant extermination in Berkeley, CA.
Ants will commonly go after sugar food and starchy foods, but as we know, they will eat pretty much anything that they will consider edible. This includes meats, fruits, flour products, desert products, rotting mold, feces, grease, and everything in between. If there is something out that an ant can take back to his colony and feed the rest of them, they will take advantage of that and can become a terrible problem infestation. If there are ants in your home, there are two different possibilities for where the infestation of ants lie. Some ants will decide it is worth it to set up shelter in your home since it is close to their desired food source, and it is worth staying. The more severe ant infestations occur when ants are outside of your home and have developed a large colony that often will take place underground. Ant hills may be a a common site for where a large amount of the ants lie, but this is usually a sign that there are many more ants around, and maybe ant hills or colonies of ants that are harder to find. Since many ants live underground, they just need an access point to get to their colony, and they are more than capable of setting up intricate underground tunnels for their colony to utilize and as a means of bringing back a food source to feed the others.
Ant colonies are usually composed of at least ten ants and grow as large as hundreds of ants, thousands of ants, and even millions of ants! In an ant colony, there is usually a designated queen ant, or queen ants that do the major reproducing for the colony, and there are drone ants, worker ants, and soldier ants that will do her bidding and provide food, protection, and other missions for the benefit of the ant colony. All ant colonies start with a small number of ants, but if there is a few reproducing queens around, ant infestations can create major pest problems for commercial businesses, residential homeowners, and anyone else in the proximity. If you see ants around, more than likely, you have only spotted the soldiers, drones, or worker ants of the group. These are the ones that go out scavenging for food, or in the case of some of the stinging ant types, go out in search of the kill for the group, in particular, that of fire ants. So when you see ants in your kitchen, in the garage, or anywhere else on a property, more than likely, these ants aren't where your problem lies. The ants that need to be exterminated are likely not seen and probably underground. For you to properly quell an ant infestation in Berkeley, CA, you must take care of the root of the problem which is the reproducing queen underground along with all of her minions by her side. Many ant infestations are hard to find due to their awareness that they are safer underground than above ground. If you want all of your ants exterminated, whether it be fire ants, carpenter ants, little sugar ants, or flying ants, than you must kill the queen ants and prevent her from having any more ant offspring for you to be sure that you will not have many more ants in your future.
To properly take care of ant infestations, there are different ways to go about it. Our ant exterminators, following their ant inspection will diagnose your ant problem, locate the root of the infestation by locating all ant hills and other hidden access points, and then come to a conclusion on the proper way to kill ants on your property. There are different ways that we go about killing ants, and it certainly depends on how big your ant infestation is and what kind of ants that they are, and whether or not there is something preventable that could have been done and that we can do to prevent another ant infestation in the future.
One ant exterminator technique that we may use is that of ant baiting. Ant baiting is the process of using bait that an ant will treat like food, and instead of just ingesting it for themselves, which they will do, they will also take that bait back to their colony and feed it to their fellow ant friends and family. Along with taking that food back, they will leave a scented trail that other ants can follow to find the ant bait, and they will also do the same, ingesting, and feeding the rest of their colony. The ant bait takes a few days to actually kill the ants, so it gives them some time to hopefully feed all of the other ants and kill them too. Our greatest hope in this process is that they will feed the queen ants the poisoned bait and it will kill the reproducing queen as well.
Another ant technique is spraying the ants. Spraying ants is usually done for the ants that are visible on the surface, and if we are able to locate where the ant infestations are, in ant hills, underground, or in your house, we will deploy professional pest control approved sprays that will kill ants on the spot. If we find the location of the ant hills and other communal ant sources, we blast them to death and totally exterminate all of your ants on the spot. While ant spraying is a might effective technique, it only kills the visible ants and when used in conjunction with ant baiting, the likelihood of ant extermination is better.
Ant prevention techniques are often applied following our extermination. We utilize special insect sprays that we will coat the exterior part of your property with that will kill insects on the spot and prevent them from venturing that area again in the future. This will help with other insects as well from entering your home, such as cockroaches, fleas, beetles, and other crawling insects. We coat any entry/access points in your home as well as other notable locations and help prevent any future ant outbreaks.
If you are looking for the best ant extermination company in Berkeley, CA, Pest Control Berkeley is the one to call. We are well recognized in the Bay Area for our ant control techniques and would love to help your problems that you may be experiencing as well. Call us today to get a free quote and dial (510) 900-8593 to get the top ant extermination in Berkeley, CA.
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Pest Control Berkeley
2302 Piedmont Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 900-8593
Mighty Men Pest Control
Company License #8676
OPR #13819
2302 Piedmont Ave
Berkeley, CA 94704
(510) 900-8593
Mighty Men Pest Control
Company License #8676
OPR #13819