Category: Ants
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Wet Spring and Summer Pushes Ants Inside Your Home
Although ants species in New Jersey typically live below ground, they will rapidly evacuate their subterranean homes when a natural disaster like flooding happens. The recent unexpected increase in rain means you will see more ants above ground than normal. Block Ant Event Migration One of the first places ants go once they are above ground is into warm, dry areas…
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Do You Have Carpenter Ants? How to Know and ID Them
Did you know that there are more than 12,000 species of ants in the world? But one of the most destructive is the carpenter ant. If you know what to look for, you can get an idea on what ant species may be doing damage to your house, home or property. Giant Ants The first thing to look…
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Three More Things We Bet You Didn’t Know About Ants in New Jersey
With our last post about ants, we talked about three colony facts. This time, we want you to know about Myrmica rubra Linnaeus, also known as the European red or fire ant. A lot of insect pests have found their way into New Jersey from other areas of the world. Although many people think that this ant species…
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Three Things We Bet You Didn’t Know About Ants in New Jersey
Every homeowner knows that ants can be merely a nuisance crawling around on surfaces or a costly horror swarming areas or tunneling through wood structures. While some ants move through a house and/or its surrounding landscape without any intention of sticking around long, many stay set up colonies near living areas where they can easily find food, such as near kitchens, dining rooms, living rooms and trash cans. Ant Colony…
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NJ Home Owners: Do Ants Communicate?
If you are waging a hard fought battle against ants in your Freehold are home, it may be time to call in the experts at Allison Pest Control. It turns out that ants are more adaptive and intelligent than scientists ever thought possible. That means a worthy opponent with a whole host of tricks may…
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The Secret Life of Ants
Not only are ants incredibly strong and able to haul materials far exceeding their own body weight, they also happen to be excellent architects. For decades, scientists have had an idea of what underground ant nests looked like, but with the help of plaster molds and painstaking work, experts can recreate 3-D models of entire nests. Taking a…