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You buy the liquid bait and set it out for the ants. You see the ants eat the bait until its all gone. The ants disappear. “Victory” you think to yourself. Then one day you see a lone ant marching around on your countertop. “This must be a straggler or a wonderer” you think to yourself. Then another ant shows up a day later. Then two ants, then three. They’re baaacckk.
Have you gone through the scenario mentioned above? Many people have. The problem is that the entire ant colony wasn’t knocked out. The bait you set out did some damage to their colony but it did not eliminate it. And ant colony can bounce back from damage and ant death very quickly. The colony can replace thousands of ants in just a few weeks.
The one surefire way to stop an ant re-infestation is to call the professionals. Companies like ours know how to attack the ants in and around your home. We have made a career out of eliminating ant infestations and keeping the out.
As far as a DIY solution, you can keep laying out the bait and hoping for the best. You can also try using bait spikes in your yard. You can spray corners with natural insect repellant. You can make sure that your home is as clean as humanly possible so that ants find nothing to eat there.
A queen fire ant can lay up to 5,000 eggs per day, and a cluster of about a dozen eggs at a time. The eggs hatch into larvae in 6–10 days, and then develop into pupae in up to 16 days. Finally, the pupae emerge as adult ants in 9–15 days. The life cycle of a fire ant takes about one month.
Basically this means unless you ill the colony, and most importantly the queen ant, they will keep regenerating like bad guys in a old Nintendo game. You need to get to the root of the problem and eliminate it.
As you can see, this is quite the list of ants. It’s hard to tell some of these ants apart. You may need the eyes of a pest expert to determine what sort of ant problem you have. Then you can attacks the ant infestation the proper way. Certain ants eat certain types of food and require special baits.
Sunstate Pest may actually use a combination of baits to make sure the ants in your home take it back to their nest. A multi-prong approach is the best way to manage ant infestations.
