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Ants may enter your home looking for food or shelter, to solve your ant problem it is helpful to understanding the behaviour of ants.

Ants are social insects that live in colonies which include one or more queen ants, worker ants, eggs, larvae, and pupae. The worker ants maintain their nests and forage for food. Nests protect the ants against enemies and protects them against the elements; often nests are close to water and food sources. When worker ants find a food source, they lay down a trail pheromone that tells other worker ants where to find the food. Ants have a wide food range, feeding on sweet foods, protein foods, greasy materials, starchy substances. They may feed on and all kinds of plant and animal materials.

There are two types of ant treatment available based on the ant problem. Ants may live outside and forage inside your home or ants that already have a nest built inside.

Ants that live outside will travel inside the home to search for food. You will want to find access points such as cracks and crevices, which should be caulked and sealed. Also clean around entry points with a detergent and spray a non-repellent insecticide. The types of ants that establish colonies inside homes may be argentine ants, crazy ants, odorous house ants, pavement ants, pharaoh ants, thief ants, and carpenter ants. Spraying a residual repellent insecticide for ant control may only provide a short-term pest control. However, the use of ant bates can be extremely effective. The ants will feed on the ant baits and take it back to the queen, killing the entire colony

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