Pest Control San Diego

ANTS

Effectively dealing with ants will regularly entail a number of re-service treatments from a Joshua’s technician.

Ants are communal insects, living in colony collectives. Scavenger ants locate food sources, primarily sweets, proteins, or greases. The scavengers mark a pheromone trail between the nest and food for worker ants to follow. Some ants will travel over 150 yards from the nest in search of choice nourishment. The ants crawling in your yard might be visiting from their nest in a neighbor's property. Spraying a few ants at the end of the trail and removing the food source is not enough to stop the ants from following the pheromone path laid out before them.

When ant harborage is located, a Joshua’s technician will treat the nest directly. Joshua’s technicians also use products to establish a blockade around a structure to discourage ant invasion. When desperate ants infiltrate the home, several means of treatment may be applied including bait. Ant bait is carried back to the source and shared with the colony.
Threatened ants often evacuate the nest, splitting up the group into new weaker nests. This division is called budding. When this happens, you can expect to see more ant activity in new strange locations. It is important to schedule a re-service visit with Joshua’s if new mounds appear or if you discover new interior activity.