{"id":2592,"date":"2014-08-22T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2014-08-20T16:48:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T21:48:02","slug":"five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Interesting Facts about Pharaoh Ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_50\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Allison-Odorous-House-Ant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Allison-Odorous-House-Ant.jpg\" alt=\"Ant Control\" width=\"200\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ant Control<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With an impressive name like &#8220;Pharaoh&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as &#8220;sugar ants&#8221; these tiny pests eat a variety of items including other insects. They are a true pest because of their ability to live in hidden and well-protected areas in the home, garage, garden shed, basement, or outdoors during warmer months in garden, patio or lawn areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Pharaoh Ants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These tiny creatures come in assorted colors and are difficult to see although they may have several colonies in and around your home. Using a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/ants\/index.php\">professional pest control company <\/a>to remove them is usually the best alternative. A few facts about the Pharaoh include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They have a sweet tooth and are drawn to any sweet food products or liquids. Their tiny bodies make it easy for them in infiltrate the smallest of openings including boxes and containers with tasty food.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Pharaohs prefer warm and humid areas with access to water and food such as kitchen cabinets, inside walls, baseboards, even appliances and light fixtures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A colony can maintain several hundred queens which leads to multiple colonies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Pharaoh ants are disease carriers for salmonella, streptococcus, staphylococcus, and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>These ants are also known to spread infection especially in private nursing facilities, clinics and\u00a0 hospitals and can cause contamination of sterile equipment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re experiencing an ant problem, call the professionals at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/\">Allison Pest Control<\/a>. Technicians will handle the crawly creatures quickly and efficiently with no fuss or muss. In business since 1917, they know their bugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With an impressive name like &#8220;Pharaoh&#8221; 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 &#8220;sugar ants&#8221; these tiny pests eat a variety of items including other insects. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,19,13,5],"tags":[143,98,78],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Five Interesting Facts about Pharaoh Ants - 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\/2014\/08\/22\/five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Five Interesting Facts about Pharaoh Ants - Allison Pest Control\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With an impressive name like &#8220;Pharaoh&#8221; 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 &#8220;sugar ants&#8221; these tiny pests eat a variety of items including other insects. They [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Allison Pest Control\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AllisonPestControl\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-08-22T08:00:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-08-20T21:48:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Allison-Odorous-House-Ant.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@allisonpest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@allisonpest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Five Interesting Facts about Pharaoh Ants - Allison Pest Control","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Five Interesting Facts about Pharaoh Ants - Allison Pest Control","og_description":"With an impressive name like &#8220;Pharaoh&#8221; 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 &#8220;sugar ants&#8221; these tiny pests eat a variety of items including other insects. They [&hellip;]","og_url":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants\/","og_site_name":"Allison Pest Control","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AllisonPestControl\/","article_published_time":"2014-08-22T08:00:02+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-08-20T21:48:02+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Allison-Odorous-House-Ant.jpg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@allisonpest","twitter_site":"@allisonpest","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants\/","url":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants\/","name":"Five Interesting Facts about Pharaoh Ants - Allison Pest Control","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Allison-Odorous-House-Ant.jpg","datePublished":"2014-08-22T08:00:02+00:00","dateModified":"2014-08-20T21:48:02+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/21c9b005b706ad13086caa3e362916f6"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Allison-Odorous-House-Ant.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Allison-Odorous-House-Ant.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/22\/five-interesting-facts-about-pharaoh-ants\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Five Interesting Facts about Pharaoh Ants"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/","name":"Allison Pest Control","description":"Never Worry About Bugs Again","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/21c9b005b706ad13086caa3e362916f6","name":"admin"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}