{"id":1876,"date":"2013-04-22T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2013-04-22T05:48:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T10:48:41","slug":"the-odorous-house-anta-yearly-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/22\/the-odorous-house-anta-yearly-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Odorous House Ant\u2026A Yearly Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The slightest bit of warmth has brought hoards of pesky odorous house ants<\/a> to the earth\u2019s surface once again.\u00a0 They arrive seemingly from nowhere.\u00a0 Outdoors, massive amounts can be found while homeowners are gardening report Monmouth County, NJ pest control<\/a> professionals.\u00a0 Their colonies exist in mulch piles, under slabs of cement, in firewood, in piles of logs, beneath stones, or under sidewalks.<\/p>\n

The odorous house ants<\/a> that come indoors are the more experienced older ant foragers.\u00a0 They tend to appear out of nowhere and often time in large numbers.\u00a0Odorous house ant like making their nests within a structure as there is ample places that they can reside with minimal disturbance and typically a plentiful supply of food sources.\u00a0\u00a0 These ants will create nesting sites throughout buildings in wall voids, under flooring, behind baseboards, in wood frames, in attic insulation, in crawlspaces, behind cabinets.<\/p>\n

The odorous house ant is also called the \u201csweet ant\u201d.\u00a0 They likely received their name due to the fact that they like to consume sweets.\u00a0 The honeydew that aphids create is a favorite food source for the odorous house ant, as well as many other species of insects.\u00a0 Odorous house ants that exist in the forest do not typically have a large nesting site.\u00a0 These ants typically have one queen and approximately 100 worker ants in the colony.\u00a0 In contrast though, odorous house ants that live within a structure, or those that live near homes, often do have extremely large colonies with many different branches of colonies.\u00a0 In addition, those odorous house ants also tend to have hundreds of queens and millions of workers within one single main colony.<\/p>\n

Homeowners have a difficult time eliminating odorous house ants without the help of a professional Monmouth County, NJ pest control professional like Allison Pest Control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The slightest bit of warmth has brought hoards of pesky odorous house ants to the earth\u2019s surface once again.\u00a0 They arrive seemingly from nowhere.\u00a0 Outdoors, massive amounts can be found while homeowners are gardening report Monmouth County, NJ pest control professionals.\u00a0 Their colonies exist in mulch piles, under slabs of cement, in firewood, in piles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[253,33],"yoast_head":"\nThe Odorous House Ant\u2026A Yearly Battle - Allison Pest Control<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/22\/the-odorous-house-anta-yearly-battle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Odorous House Ant\u2026A Yearly Battle - 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