Ant Treatment

Ants can infest and contaminate sterile areas and foodstuffs and just the appearance of ants can lead to customer concerns over compromised health and hygene, which in turn can lead to a loss of reputation and ultimately harm your business.

Our Ant control professionals use a professional-use-only ant treatment which is produced by BAYER and complies to the highest standards of European pesticide approval.  Ant treatment is water based and is therefore very safe and does not leave any residue whatsoever following treatment.  Most reputable pest control companies use this treatment although there are cheaper less effective treatments on the market. 

The ant control treatment is applied via a simple sprayer  and is applied very lightly onto the carpet at the junction with the skirting board.  It is safe for animals and children and it will dry into an invisible powder within about 30 minutes of applying.  You do not need to leave the house and it does not involve fumigation.  Most people who suffer ants and have our ant treatment do not see another ant that year in their house, and if they do suffer ants again the next year, they almost always contact us to visit again that year.  We have a large number of customers who say our service and the quality of our treatment is priceless, it is so straight forward and simple, and our ant control officers will call at a time to suit you. Contact us now to see how we can help your ant problem.

Life-cycle of Ants

The gregarious habits of ants have resulted in the development of a caste system, whereby individuals are responsible for specialised duties within the community.
There are:

• Workers (sterile females)
• Fertile males
• Queens

The worker ants build and ex-tend the nest, look after the larvae forms and forage for food, whereby they become pests. The queens carry out none of these duties, but remain almost exclusively within the nest. Mating amongst sexual individuals takes place on the wing. These spectacular swarms involve large numbers of ants and take place between mid-July and mid-September. The actual swarms only persist for 2-3 hours.

After mating the males perish but the females shed their wings and dig a cell in the soil where they live during the winter. The eggs are laid in late spring and the white legless larvae hatch 3-4 weeks later. The larvae are fed on secretions from the queen's salivary glands until fully grown, when they will pupate, forming the well known "ant eggs". From these pupae emerge the first brood of worker ants. These tend subsequent broods. The sexual forms are not produced until late summer. The entire cycle takes about 2 months to complete. Under favourable conditions a nest may persist for several years.