Ants as a insect are the most organized and efficient species in the world. They have amazing communication skills which we still can not understand and are very sensitive to insecticides and traps.
If you are battling ants your problem is often much bigger than the dozen that you can visually see. These are just foragers. The Ant colony is much larger and more complex. If you kill the foragers the colony lives on to fight another day.
The biggest mistake is to randomly spray. This will not solve the problem.
The other mistake is to grab ant bait off the grocery store shelf that is in the same location as the insecticide.
And finally we have to consider the type of ant because some species actually break into new colonies when they are sprayed and loose a few workers.
Ants can move through very tiny cracks in the foundation and around our pipes. They use our electrical system and pipes as super highways.
With all this in mind, can we control them. Yes, but keep in mind we usually win the battles but never the war.
No comments:
Post a Comment