Fire Ant Treatment Companies

Not all fire ant treatment companies are alike. However, you will find that many, like Fire Ant Specialists, work with each other in order to cover greater land masses.

The red imported fire ants that we target are very resilient. They came over from South America into the Port of Mobile back in the 1930s. Since then, they have spread throughout the southeastern U.S., as far west as Arizona and Texas.

These ants are fond of humidity and warmth. They will often look for locales that provide that to them year-round. This is why Florida endures a large number of their population.

Ant Populating

When ants breed, it is the ones that have wings. They mate midair. Shortly after the ritual, the males die. The females then rip off their wings and walk around until they find a suitable place to dig deep down and begin their own colonies.

That one mating ritual injects the female with all the sperm she will need to mass-produce 1,000 or more eggs a day. The worker ants live between four and six weeks. Essentially, when you do the math, over the course of one ant’s life, up to 42,000 other ants are being brought into the world in that colony.

So, when you use a fire ant treatment from one of those box stores, you will only be taking out the top layer of ants. These colonies can be 30 feet deep into the ground, with hundreds of thousands of ants.

You need expert assistance from Fire Ant Specialists.

Ant Destroying

Understanding the speed with which these red imported fire ants can replenish their masses will help you determine a method to destroy them.

While the worker ants are the ones that bite and sting you, it is the queen that needs to be eliminated. When you use vinegar, boiling water, or citrus peels, you are only making the ants create a new mound. When you use diatomaceous earth, you simply take out the ones that walk on the ground where it has been laid.

Fire Ant Specialists uses a special bait that convinces the workers to bring it to the queen. It is a slow-reacting poison that serves to sterilize her. This makes the entire colony die off. That is always the plan.

Other methods will simply convince the colony to build new mounds and tunnels in a different location on the same property. The queen doesn’t leave her location once she has established her colony.

If you really want your property to be ant-free, you must take out the queen. This means you are going to need expert assistance like Fire Ant Specialists provides.

We will come to the property, give you a wall-to-wall estimate, and tell you what date you can expect to see the results. If that date is inaccurate, we will spot-treat for free.

In your search for fire ant treatment companies, Fire Ant Specialists should be your number one choice. Give us a call at 352-291-2687 or click here.