Ants can be a real nuisance in the kitchen and an embarrassing problem when you have company over. Infestations with ants are very common in the Tukwila Washington , but it doesn’t really make you feel better to know that you’re not alone when you’re dealing with those creepy crawlies on your floors, under your appliances and on your cabinetry.
It’s nice to have company in the kitchen when you’re preparing a meal, but not the kind that has six legs and antenna.
Little black ants like to dwell in wooded areas, most notably in decaying wood or in sidewalk cracks. In yards, they build their nests under rocks, in rotting logs, and under piles of bricks or lumber. While they prefer to live outdoors, little black ants can build their nests indoors under the right conditions.
Ants are social animals and live in colonies with hundreds, or even millions, of others. They have tiny brains in many cases smaller than a grain of sand.
So how are they so clever at getting into our homes and finding our food? Because they are masters of cooperation.
Consider the way some ants march in a line towards that drop of honey on your kitchen bench. When worker ants of some species find a tasty piece of food, they respond by placing a tiny droplet of pheromone on the ground. They continue to leave a trail of pheromones all the way back to the nest.
Only one ant needs to find the food and lay a trail. Once that happens, hundreds of others can follow the trail to the food source.
Their nests have been located in the homes of homeowners usually in woodwork, wall voids, decaying wood, masonry, and behind facades. They can also be found in kitchen areas and wherever they can find food sources.
Extermination inspection outdoors. Inspect any decaying or rotting wood in your yard. Inspect Raised bed gardens, tool sheds, gazebos, lumber, and woodpiles, tree stumps, along pavements or sidewalks, under rocks, moisture barriers like pavers, fences, yard debris.
Indoors inspect wall voids, under sinks plumbing, holes in walls, behind decaying wood, behind masonry, and in house kitchens or bathrooms.
Little black ants are found near wooded areas, in rotting wood or in or close to cracks in the pavement. In your yard, they build their colonies under yard debris, in rotting woodpiles, and under piles of stones or logs.
While they prefer to live outdoors, little black ants can build their nests inside your home if the weather turns harsh. Their nests inside homes of are usually located in woodwork, inside cracks and crevices in walls, in decaying wood, masonry, and behind facades
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There are two kinds of ants that commonly nest indoors and tend to like to make their homes in kitchens: little black ants and carpenter ants. Also called Argentine ants and sugar ants, little black ants are very attracted to sweets but will also eat proteins like meat. The ants get inside of buildings through small openings and along utility lines. They tend to come indoors when it’s overly wet or dry outside.
Carpenter ants eat the same types of things as little black ants; however, they make their way into homes a little differently. These ants can actually burrow into door and window frames and eaves and like to make their homes in wood. While little black ants are a pain, carpenter ants are more destructive and can actually cause damage to a home.
What Kind of Ants Are They?
So how can you tell which kind you have? Try to catch one to look at it under a magnifying glass! One of the biggest differences is that the carpenter ant will have little hairs growing in rings on the back section of its body (the abdomen). Little black ants have smooth, hairless abdomens. The abdomen of the carpenter ant is also wider and more oval shaped, while the little black ant’s abdomen is narrower and more pointed. It can be very difficult to tell whether you’re looking at a little black ant or a carpenter ant, but a ant exterminator will be able to do so easily.
Cost of Ants extermination Treatment
Both little black ants and carpenter ants can usually be successfully treated with a single application of the right chemicals by a professional exterminator. The cost for little black ant removal is nearly always less than carpenter ant removal. This is because of the carpenter ants’ ability to burrow into wood in the home. Generally, ant removal services start as low as $150 and can cost as much as $300. The exact price is determined by the size and severity of the infestation, your geographic location, the size of your space, the types of ants that need to be treated and other factors. Often, exterminators will recommend quarterly or monthly maintenance treatments, which usually cost somewhere between $350 to $700 annually, a small price to pay to not have to deal with ants in your kitchen again.
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