Fire Ant Treatment in Plant City, FL

Fire Ant Specialists offers fire ant treatment for all types of properties in Plant City, FL – residential and commercial. We use granular bait that is proven effective and safe for use around people and animals.

Fire Ant Hazards

Fire ant hazards are twofold—injury and property damage—both of which can be costly and unwelcome. Fire ant stings are painful and can lead to allergic reactions and even death for a small portion of the population, and nesting behaviors can cause extensive damage to wiring, home foundations, and more. 

Control of fire ant populations must focus on fire ants’ behaviors, specifically those that make the species so successful. 

Mounds on your property may be one sign of a fire ant infestation. Unfortunately, fire ants can be present and active with no mound in sight. Following a hard and heavy rain, look around and near higher ground and vertical structures like trees and fence posts. Freshly built mounds are clear indications of a fire ant presence.

Keep in mind that fire ant tunnels are deep underground and can reach out 30′. A colony may hold hundreds of thousands of citizens, with multiple queens churning out more daily. Traditional fire ant treatments, even when they succeed in killing thousands of worker ants, offer short-term results at best. Replacements wait below, with more developing into pupae and larvae. For successful fire ant control, you’ll have to address reproduction, which means killing the queen or preventing her from reproducing further.

Every behavior of fire ants relates to the furtherance of the colony, which means protecting and caring for the queen and her newest generation of eggs. The vast majority of the ants develop into female workers, while a few specialize in reproducing winged males and females. The workers provide food and protection for the colony.

A worker ant lives between 4 and 6 weeks, but a queen may live six years. She needs a single set of eggs to establish a colony; worker ants can’t start a colony, so the queen has to be the target of any long-term control measures.

The measures that we use at Fire Ant Specialists halt the queen’s ability to reproduce, so the colony dies as the worker ants expire, ending the food supply. Any other half-measures allow the queen to carry on repopulating the colony.

Fire ants relocate and establish new colonies frequently. Weather conditions, resource availability, or the maturation of reproductive males and females often instigate these migrations. Maintaining fire ant protection on any property is an ongoing effort. One treatment from Fire Ant Specialists will reduce the fire ant property significantly, but you will need to schedule retreatment three times per year for maximum protection.

Fire Ant Specialists has provided custom fire ant control since 1993, and we promise success. If treatment doesn’t provide the results we promise, we will return for treatment of the infested area without charge. Customer satisfaction is our mainstay.

Click here or call 352-291-ANTS (2687) for fire ant treatment from the Fire Ant Specialists in Plant City, FL. We offer guaranteed results with a system that targets the root of the problem rather than the symptoms.