Killing the ants you see is cosmetic. Killing the colony is the job. We treat at the source, not the trail.
Ants are the number one residential pest call we get across Northwest Arkansas and Southwest Missouri. The problem with ants is not the ones on your kitchen counter, it is the thousands of their cousins in a colony you cannot see. Spraying the trail kills scouts and buys you a day. Killing the colony ends the problem.
Small, dark brown, and the most common indoor ant in the Ozarks. Smell like rotten coconut when crushed. They super colony, meaning a single kitchen invasion can trace back to thousands of workers across multiple satellite nests.
Large, black, and structurally destructive. Unlike termites they do not eat wood, but they excavate it for nesting, leaving piles of coarse sawdust called frass. Second only to termites as a wood damaging pest.
Imported red fire ants have spread through Arkansas and are moving into Missouri. Aggressive stinging ants that build visible mounds in lawns and pastures. Painful stings, medically significant for sensitive individuals.
Small, dark brown, and the classic driveway and sidewalk ant. Come inside through foundation cracks, especially in slab homes.
Tiny, yellow, and difficult. Budding ant that splits colonies when sprayed incorrectly, making the problem worse. Requires bait only treatment.
We identify the species first, because treatment for fire ants is completely different from treatment for odorous house ants, and spraying pharaoh ants with contact killer will actually make the problem worse. Once species is confirmed, we choose bait, non repellent residual, or perimeter application based on colony behavior. The goal is colony elimination, not cosmetic knock down.
Ant pressure builds in March as colonies wake up, peaks from May through August, and tapers into October. Fire ants are most active in spring and fall, avoiding extreme summer heat. Carpenter ants are active May through September.
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