Getting Rid Of Ants In Your Roseville Home For Good!

Ant problems have a way of causing some Roseville residents to feel overwhelmed. Ants can enter homes in large numbers. When you find them crawling on walls, surfaces, and dishes, it may send you racing to the hardware store for ant control products. But control products can also cause you to feel overwhelmed. It is difficult to apply effective ant pest control because ants have behavior patterns that help them avoid elimination. When ant control fails, it can leave you feeling defeated and tired. We hope to help you avoid those feelings by equipping you with information to help you with your ant control. We'll look at ant habits and behaviors that relate to ant management. We'll tell you how ants can cause trouble in your home and explain the warning signs of trouble. Then we'll look at how to get rid of an ant infestation. If you want immediate assistance and don't want to read an article about ant control while ants scale the side of your computer screen or crawl across your keyboard, you can reach out to us by phone or through our contact page. Neighborly Pest Management provides solutions for ant pest control in Roseville. We can identify the ants that are causing problems for you and guide you toward a solution that works best for you. 

The Habits And Behaviors Of Common Ants

Bait is often the solution for ant control. Unfortunately, ants have habits and behaviors that allow them to avoid bait. In fact, misapplied bait often leads to bait aversion, which can make an ant problem more difficult to correct. Another corrective measure people use is liquid applications. These are applied to surfaces to eliminate ants that pass over them. Unfortunately, they have little or no impact on ants. Mound treatments are also a common solution, but applying a treatment to a mound can cause an ant problem to get worse. Here are a few ways ants outsmart ant control. 

• Some ant species have workers that only recruit a small number to collect a food source. Since a large number is required to collect enough bait for colony elimination, the bait can fail.
• Some ants eat protein. Some prefer sugar. Baits can fail when an incorrect bait is used.
• Ants are always checking each other out. When one worker detects a foreign substance on another, the danger is communicated to the rest of the colony, and the workers will avoid treated surfaces.
• Some people attempt to treat ants directly. While you can get a few ants by doing this, the method is entirely topical and will not eliminate a colony. The ants are too smart to bring their tainted dead back to the nest. Many ant species have undertakers that bury their dead. The undertakers take ants to a dumping area. The process of dumping off their downed comrades allows ants to keep harmful substances out of their nests.
• Mound treatments have the potential to work on certain ant species, but a mound treatment that fails and does not get deep enough will send an alarm to the colony and may cause budding. Budding is when one colony breaks apart and turns into two or more colonies. 
• Some people crush ants when they see them. Not only is this entirely ineffective ant control, but it can also attract ants. Crushing an ant releases a pheromone scent. Pheromones are how ants communicate. The death stench pheromone, which is oleic acid, brings workers running to collect and deposit their dead, so instead of getting rid of ants, you'll see more of them.

It is tricky to apply ant control in your house or yard. You need to know what ant species you are attempting to control and what methods work to outsmart their natural tendency to avoid treatments.