PROFESSIONAL ECOLOGICAL SERVICES

PHARAOH ANTS

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Introduction

Pharaoh ants are very, very small yellowish ants that can be a major nuisance inside a building.

There are usually several Pharaoh ants' nests in an infested building and each nest usually contains several thousand individuals. The nests each have several egg-laying queens so their reproduction rate is very high.

Only about 5% of the workers from each nest search for food. Killing those workers disrupts the colony and causes it to split into multiple new colonies. The end result: a worse problem than before the workers were killed. It is extremely important, therefore, that nothing be sprayed to kill the ants you see!

Control

Control of Pharaoh ants must be achieved using a slow-acting poisoned bait. The worker ants carry the bait to their nests and feed it to the queens and developing young. In this way the colonies are gradually killed.

We need your help to eliminate the Pharaoh ants.

  • Do not kill them. Allow them to carry the baits we are using home with them.

  • Keep your home spotlessly clean. Don't give the ants any spilled food to eat. Make them eat our baits.

  • Report all ants you see. We need to know where the ants are feeding so we can put baits in those areas.

Pharaoh ant control is difficult and slow. With your help, however, we will eliminate them.

To see some of the application and control equipment and materials we use to manage insect and bug pests click here.


If you need service for controlling a Pharaoh Ant infestation,
 call us now.



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PES Professional Ecological Services Ltd.
98-B Burnside Road West, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada V9A 1B5

Phone: (250) 383-2445
Fax: (250) 383-6775
e-mail: services@pestvictoria.com

We provide professional integrated pest management (IPM) services, a high-tech form of pest control. We are called professional pest managers, not exterminators or fumigators.  We provide pest management, not extermination or fumigation. Excluding pests before they cause a pest offence is a good example of IPM at work.

If You Need Professional Services from Your Pest Control and Pest Management Experts,
for pests in Greater Victoria, British Columbia (B.C. or BC), Canada
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