Ants
Ants may seem harmless, but when they invade your home or business, they become a serious nuisance. They contaminate food, damage property, and some species even deliver painful bites. Once an ant colony is established, it can be difficult to remove without professional treatment.
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Ant Pest Control
At First Pest Control, we specialise in fast, effective ant extermination, using professional-grade insecticides and baiting techniques to eliminate the problem at its source.
Garden Ant
The most common ant in UK homes and businesses
Pharaoh Ant
A serious pest in hospitals, care homes, and food businesses.
Red Ant
Also known as the European Fire Ant, found in gardens and damp areas.
Roger’s Ant
Larger than other ants, often black or dark brown in colour
How we deal with Ants
The black garden ant is probably the most common ant we receive calls about, but we also have other ant species in the UK. The largest ant in the UK is the Southern Wood Ant with workers nearly half an inch long.
Red Fire Ants give a painful sting and are becoming more common in the UK.
Pharoah Ants which love warm buildings such as hospitals, prisons, schools etc.
The black garden ant although stubborn, is the easiest to control because the colony will have a single Queen. Whereby most of the other species have multiple queens per colony making control challenging.
We receive calls for ants usually on a hot, humid day in July or August when the ants emerge in the millions with wings flying everywhere causing alarm to some people. Once the colony has reached this stage it’s too late for treatment for that year. Ants are triggered by the weather in order to reproduce and form new colonies. They do this by certain ants receiveing more food than the standard worjers. This creates ants that will develop wings on a hot humid day and the males and females will take to the air and mate ‘on the wing’. The males will die shortly afterwards, and the females will land back on the ground, shed their wings and begin her own colony. She can live to over twenty years which is incredible for an insect but gives her time to build her colony.
We control ants by using different types of bait that the ant consumes. Once consumed the ants will regurgitate the bait and share amongst the colony. This trojan Horse effect ultimately destroys the colony as the bait contains a delayed response in killing the ant.
Red Fire Ants give a painful sting and are becoming more common in the UK.
Pharoah Ants which love warm buildings such as hospitals, prisons, schools etc.
The black garden ant although stubborn, is the easiest to control because the colony will have a single Queen. Whereby most of the other species have multiple queens per colony making control challenging.
We receive calls for ants usually on a hot, humid day in July or August when the ants emerge in the millions with wings flying everywhere causing alarm to some people. Once the colony has reached this stage it’s too late for treatment for that year. Ants are triggered by the weather in order to reproduce and form new colonies. They do this by certain ants receiveing more food than the standard worjers. This creates ants that will develop wings on a hot humid day and the males and females will take to the air and mate ‘on the wing’. The males will die shortly afterwards, and the females will land back on the ground, shed their wings and begin her own colony. She can live to over twenty years which is incredible for an insect but gives her time to build her colony.
We control ants by using different types of bait that the ant consumes. Once consumed the ants will regurgitate the bait and share amongst the colony. This trojan Horse effect ultimately destroys the colony as the bait contains a delayed response in killing the ant.
DIY Pest Control
Some ant baits are sold online, but we can’t vouch for how well they work. Different species need different baits; Pharaoh ants, for example, need a different bait from black garden ants. Knowing which species you are dealing with, and how it behaves, is the key to getting the problem under control.