Protect Your Property from Fire Ants

If you live in the Southeastern United States, you might be wondering how to protect your property from fire ants. These invasive red imported fire ants entered our country through the Port of Mobile nearly a century ago. Thankfully, Fire Ant Specialists is here to alleviate your issue.

Fire Ant Specialists has been working in conjunction with sister companies to systematically control the spread and impact of the red imported fire ant. Our main headquarters is in Ocala, but we work throughout the state of Florida and have been doing so since 1993.

If you are looking for some protection from a fire ant invasion, we are here to assist.

Five Steps for Keeping the Ants Out

The most obvious of these five steps is getting professional fire ant control. Hiring a knowledgeable company to help you maintain the safety of your environment is always an advisable step. Fire Ant Specialists is here for you. With the help of our sister companies, we can cover large spaces in small amounts of time.

But let us get back to the list:

1. Get professional fire ant control.
2. Keep your space clean.
3. Seal up entry points.
4. Maintain your lawn.
5. Do it yourself until you can’t.

We find that people will ignore the first suggestion and then follow the next four. It’s when they get to that fifth suggestion that they realize they’ve got to go all the way back to the first one. They could have skipped the additional headache, but we all can be a bit hardheaded sometimes.

Here’s the reality when it comes to these invasive buggers: they are unpleasant and, in some cases, for some people, deadly. We don’t want them around, and we are sure you feel the same.

But it won’t matter how many DIY things you try—you will still be fighting them until you decide to let the experts do what they do best.

We Wish DIY Worked

For small infestations and properties, you might be okay using the orange peel method. Ants don’t like citrus oil and will move their colonies away from it. But just because they move doesn’t mean they leave. Or, if they leave, you may have simply given your neighbor the problem.

We want to be good neighbors.

We wish things like orange peels and grits worked. We even wish some of the products in home improvement stores made a difference. But they market those things in a way that implies they do more than they actually do. The reality is, the best ones only take out surface-level ants. These colonies can be 30 feet underground. Read that again—30 feet underground!

Our material is effective because it is laced with something that makes the ants believe it’s real food. So, being diligent little workers, they happily bring our bait to their queen. Ingestion by the queen means sterilization of the queen. When you have a sterile queen, you have an ant colony on its deathbed.

If you really want to protect your property from fire ants, Fire Ant Specialists is the way to go. Give us a call at 352-291-2687, or click here to book a treatment or receive a free quote.