Controlling Fire Ants in Pastures

Controlling fire ants in pastures is essential to the safety and well-being of your horses and livestock. It may seem strange that such a tiny entity can cause massive damage, but it is true nonetheless. Fire Ant Specialists can help you protect your investments.

We have been in this industry since 1993. That’s a lot of time to get to know the enemy, Solenopsis invicta, or the red imported fire ant. This species arrived in North America in the 1930s through the Port of Mobile and has spread throughout our southern regions, especially on the east side of the continent.

They have proven to be a formidable foe.

Ant Power

Certainly, you have heard that there is strength in numbers. When you consider the fact that one ant colony can house hundreds of thousands of ants and go as deep as 30 feet underground, it is easier to see how challenging the problem is.

The queen can repopulate her entire colony in 100 days. That’s because she lays up to 1,000 eggs daily. She can live two to six years. In her first year as queen, she can create 365,000 ants.

The math shows that for every one ant’s lifespan, she can produce up to 42,000 more. The power of ants is often in their numbers. But that’s not their only strength.

These ants bite and sting. Many other varieties only do one or the other. Red imported fire ants do both, and they will do it en masse, repeatedly, when feeling provoked.

In a pasture situation, this can be deadly. Even if an animal is not allergic to their toxic sting, the sheer number of stings can be debilitating.

Shockingly, the red imported fire ant will actually target weak, old, or sick animals. To keep your pastured animals safe, ridding their land of these creatures is essential.

Take Back the Power

While it may seem that the fire ants have taken over your land, it is possible for you to take back the power. Hiring Fire Ant Specialists to treat your property, no matter the size, is wise.

Our treatment methods are specifically formulated to entice the worker ants to bring the bait to the queen. They utilize a slow-release method that ultimately sterilizes her. No more repopulating causes the colony to die out, and eventually, the queen will starve.

Attacking the queen is far more effective than any other treatment you may have read about in a DIY article. Most of those tactics only serve to take out surface-level ants. Very few of the baits sold to the masses ever even make it to the queen.

Like many other things in this world, they are advertised to do extraordinary things, but they are only hitting base-level targets. That gives an appearance of success in an initial reduction in ants, but it won’t take long to see it was a lie.

You want the truth about controlling fire ants in pastures. Fire Ant Specialists wants to give you the solution. Call us at 352-291-2687 or click here.