Garden Ants
From February onwards, garden ants create indoors issues. Ants are attracted to sweet foods which they carry back to their nest. Garden ants collecting sugar in a kitchen press
The garden ant is black in colour and has a segmented body. Workers are 5mm in length and the queen 15mm long. Garden ants can become a nuisance when they enter a facility but they do not present a threat to health. They do not transmit disease and they do not bite.
Nests are usually found in lawns, flower beds, beneath stones and paving slabs etc. They are also increasingly found in cavity walls and foundations of properties. Ants are social insects and several thousand may be present in a large nest.
During summer, large numbers of winged females and males are reared in the nest on a warm and humid day, normally between mid-July and mid-September they swarm out and take flight. Sometimes they all follow a trail inside premises and hundreds of them may appear in a few hours, causing distress to staff/residents.
Contact Owl Pest Control for advice and Pest Control Services get rid of Ants.
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