Ants in the house can be the dread of many households in summer leaving many individuals to fear summer months together with the yearly flying ant intrusion.
Only the unlucky people who’ve suffered it will know the true nature of flying ants inside their residences.
Getting an infestation of plain old wingless ants is detrimental enough but when they go through their annual mating phase your situation becomes dreadul.
Ants will form colonies underneath the floors also in the wall cavities in our houses and these colonies will live for many years if not dealt with becoming slowly but surely more troublesome every year.
Our dwellings are warm and dry and provide the ideal places for a thriving ant colony; even solid hard floor just isn’t a deterent to an ant.
Our heating systems raises their metabolism even in the winter months and my earliest ant call-out was on my birthday, in January!
Ants and flying ants need a sandy soil and there are lots of areas in Lancashire, Cheshire and Manchester which are likely to provide more ant problems than most, Southport, Blackpool, Bolton, Sale & Altrincham come to mind as hot ant properties.
Unfortunately it is during their mating time that they’re most annoying. Throughout Lancashire, Cheshire and Manchester this usually is pretty often around the third or fourth week in July.
Ants mate on the wing and around mid-summer the colony produces winged immature Queens and winged males which in the wild would fly off and mate in the air. Thousands of such winged ants are generated per colony and nests are inclined to time their release so that they mate with ants from other nearby nests.
Normally this procedure starts after a period of days of hot, dry weather and will usually last for about acouple of weeks although smaller releases will continue throughout most of the summer.
Unfortunately once the nest is located under the floor of the house the outcomes are generally devastating, huge amounts of winged ants are produced into the lower rooms, gathering on windows as they make for the sunshine.
This really is very upsetting for a lot of bringing about severe emotional distress to the degree that individuals learn to fear the summertime and have actually left their homes to flee the plague of ants which they know will appear each summer.
The poor summers of 2008, 2009 & 2010 has meant that ant problems were down on earlier but ants appear to have a means of catching up and 2011 looks set to be a particularly problematic year.
Most people who have this problem try for DIY solutions with powders from hardware shops etc but mostly these efforts do not work as they are not getting to the heart of the problem which is the colony itself, hidden away safely in the cavity wall or sub-floor area.
Fortunately for many people the answer.
At Harrier Pest Control (subject to site survey) we are able to cure this problem and issue an extendable three year guarantee.
The process which is carried out mainly from the exterior of the property, is perfectly safe for pets and children and produces no smell, involves drilling small holes into the cavity walls of the property, not unlike a damp-course injection and blowing an insecticidal powder into the cavity wall under pressure.
This forms an impenetrable barrier through that the ants cannot cross and together with a precautionary internal spray treatment (if considered necessary) will steadily bring the infestation under control.
The holes, that are only 8mm in diameter remain open so it will be a simply matter of topping up the cavity walls every 36 months to extend the effectiveness of the guarantee in three year terms.
This treatment is best done out in the early spring even so it is possible any time of year.
As a limited time offer before our chaotic period begins we are offering to you 25% off the standard cost until May 30 2010. Whilst we usually cover the entire of Lancashire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester, we could travel further afield but this will be reflected within the cost.
For a chat and to arrange an appointment contact Harrier Pest Prevention on Free Phone 0800 019 8382 or 01257 230637
Don’t suffer ant horrors, call us now!