Category: Ants
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Facts About Ant Colonies and Propagation by Budding
Ants are among the planet’s most successful species. Adaptable and prolific with highly evolved survival instincts, ants are a formidable foe when they invade Monmouth County, New Jersey homes and businesses. No Such Thing as One Ant Ants live in massive social colonies where each ant’s role in the colony is well defined. Depending on the…
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Five Interesting Facts about Pharaoh Ants
With an impressive name like “Pharaoh” you know these ants have a reputation to live up to, and they do, as they are innovative and creative when it comes to finding suitable places to set up a colony. Also known as “sugar ants” these tiny pests eat a variety of items including other insects. They…
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How to Save Your Backyard Picnic
Flies floating in your fruit juice? Ants marching away with your apple pie? Mosquitos using your body as an all-you-can-eat buffet? Save your backyard picnic from pests with these NJ pest control tips: Dress the part. Although bright colors are festive, they tend to draw in bugs. Opt for cool neutrals to blend in and…
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Why Do it Your Self Doesn’t Always Work With Ants
Have you been spotting ants in your home often enough to make you uneasy? These tiny, seemingly harmless insects don’t appear to be much of a match against humans. However, you should proceed with caution. Do-it-yourself extermination methods can backfire and actually make the problem worse. Out in nature, ants are an important part of…
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Zombie Ants? Really?
A staple of horror films, zombies have never been so popular. Hollywood seems fascinated by a zombie apocalypse while AMC’s The Walking Dead brings the flesh-eating undead into our living rooms. Of course, in the human world zombies don’t actually exist. But in the animal world it’s a different story. Evil Fungi In Thailand’s rainforest…