{"id":1880,"date":"2013-04-24T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2013-04-24T05:50:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T10:50:22","slug":"argentine-ants-come-marching-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/argentine-ants-come-marching-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentine Ants Come Marching In"},"content":{"rendered":"

Argentine ants<\/a> are a common household pest throughout the state of New Jersey report Monmouth County, NJ pest control<\/a> professionals.\u00a0 New Jersey residents will find that Argentine ants create shallow nesting sites in soil near buildings, beneath logs, wood, debris, potted plants, or under sidewalks.\u00a0 Argentine ants are easy to distinguish from other types of invasive ant species as these ants are trailing ants.<\/p>\n

The Argentine ant<\/a> nest is often times found to be massive in size due to the fact that the colony has hundreds of reproducing ant queens.\u00a0 Like other ant species, Argentine ants go through the same metamorphosis from eggs, larvae and then adulthood.\u00a0 All adult Argentine ants are the same size.\u00a0 Argentine ants differ from other types of ant species in that they do not exhibit any ant swarming behavior.\u00a0 Argentine ant reproductives instead stay inside of the nest to mate, which enables the nest to continue to thrive.<\/p>\n

If the original nesting site becomes overcrowded, a queen will leave the nest to construct a new nest that is located close by.\u00a0 That nesting site is then connected to the old colony which helps to create the massive colony of ants.<\/p>\n

Argentine ants are omnivorous creatures but they prefer to consume sweets, honeydew and oily household food products.\u00a0 Argentine ants will send a scout ant into a structure to find a suitable food source, preferably something sweet.\u00a0 Once found, a massive amount of ants will descend upon the structure as the ants will travel up tree trunks and down limbs touching the building, or find the smallest crack in a wall or foundation to gain entry.\u00a0 Once indoors, Argentine ants are extremely difficult to control.\u00a0 Using chemical sprays on\u00a0the line of ants is useless as they will scatter and cause the infestation of ants to split into various groups which will make the problem worsen.<\/p>\n

Industry experts agree that Argentine ants are best left to a licensed pest control professional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Argentine ants are a common household pest throughout the state of New Jersey report Monmouth County, NJ pest control professionals.\u00a0 New Jersey residents will find that Argentine ants create shallow nesting sites in soil near buildings, beneath logs, wood, debris, potted plants, or under sidewalks.\u00a0 Argentine ants are easy to distinguish from other types of […]<\/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":[253,56],"yoast_head":"\nArgentine Ants Come Marching In - 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\/24\/argentine-ants-come-marching-in\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Argentine Ants Come Marching In - 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