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Ants Pest Control Sydney |
| Thinking? How to get rid of Ants or How to kill Ants. Call the experts 1300 400 301 |
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Ants Information :
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 Ants belong to the Family Formicide, within the Order of Hymenoptera. This order also includes bees and wasps. Ants are of ecological importance for their roles as predators and scavengers, for seed and pollen dispersal, and in soil structure. In Australia there are over 4000 known species of ants. A handful of these are considered pests. Pest ants often nest in and around buildings, congregate in food preparation areas and have the potential to spread disease. Ants feed on a wide variety of foodstuffs. Many ant species rely on 'honeydew', produced by aphids and scale insects, as a food source. Ants may be observed 'farming' these insects on plant foliage.
Ants are social insects that live in more or less permanent nests. Nests contain one or more queens, males, and immature forms that are fed and cared for by sterile workers. Workers may be specialized, for example into minor and major(or soldier) castes. These perform specific tasks and appear physically different.
Ants are not related to termites, and cannot damage sound timber. |
Common Ants Species Found in Australia: |
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- Sugar Ants
- Singapore Ants
- Black house Ants
- Argentina Ants
- White Footed Ants
- Carpenter Ants
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Size:
Ants range in size from about 0.08 inch (2 mm) to up to about 1 inch (25 mm) long.
Behavior:
Ants communicate with each other using pheromones. These chemical signals are more developed in ants than in other hymenopteran groups. Like other insects, ants perceive smells with their long, thin and mobile antennae. The paired antennae provide information about the direction and intensity of scents. Since most ants live on the ground, they use the soil surface to leave pheromone trails that can be followed by other ants. In species that forage in groups, a forager that finds food marks a trail on the way back to the colony; this trail is followed by other ants, these ants then reinforce the trail when they head back with food to the colony. When the food source is exhausted, no new trails are marked by returning ants and the scent slowly dissipates. This behavior helps ants deal with changes in their environment. For instance, when an established path to a food source is blocked by an obstacle, the foragers leave the path to explore new routes. If an ant is successful, it leaves a new trail marking the shortest route on its return. Successful trails are followed by more ants, reinforcing better routes and gradually finding the best path.
Ants use pheromones for more than just making trails. A crushed ant emits an alarm pheromone that sends nearby ants into an attack frenzy and attracts more ants from further away. Several ant species even use "propaganda pheromones" to confuse enemy ants and make them fight among themselves .Pheromones are produced by a wide range of structures including Dufour's glands, poison glands and glands on the hindgut, pygidium, rectum, sternum and hind tibia. Pheromones are also exchanged mixed with food and passed by trophallaxis, transferring information within the colony. This allows other ants to detect what task group (e.g., foraging or nest maintenance) other colony members belong to. In ant species with queen castes, workers begin to raise new queens in the colony when the dominant queen stops producing a specific pheromone.
Some ants produce sounds by stridulation, using the gaster segments and their mandibles. Sounds may be used to communicate with colony members or with other species.
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| Habitat: |
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Most ant species live in the soil. Some, like the carpenter ants, also live in wood (they excavate, but do not actually eat the wood). Some ants live in cavities made inside plants, such as acorns, twigs, and galls. |
Ants Symptoms:
- Swelling, redness, itchiness, and pain around the site of bite
- Pus-filled blisters that last 3-8 days
- Possible scab at the area of the bite that lasts 3-10 days
- Those allergic to fire ant venom may also have
- Difficulty breathing
- Rapid heart rate
- Throat swelling
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| Health Concerns: |
Ants attack and defend themselves by biting and, in many species, by stinging, often injecting or spraying chemicals like formic acid. Bullet ants (Paraponera), located in Central and South America, are considered to have the most painful sting of any insect, although it is usually not fatal to humans. This sting is given the highest rating on the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. The sting of Jack jumper ants can be fatal, and an anti venom has been developed. Fire ants, Solenopsis spp., are unique in having a poison sac containing piperidinealkaloids. Their stings are painful and can be dangerous to hypersensitive people. |
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| What to do |
| 1. Get Immediate Professional Inspection and Ants treatment before it get severe problem |
| WARNING: Do NOT attempt DIY Ants pest control in side or around the house, you or your children might get sick and there are heavy fines for using an insecticide that is NOT registered for Ants pest control - will not eradicate the Ants infestation |
| Things you MUST know |
| 1. Be careful when selecting a pest controller it's far too easy to get a NSW Govt Work Cover issued Pest Control Licence and start up a pest control business - using mostly unsupervised trainees who have little knowledge of Ants pest species or Ants control pesticides |
| 2. Be careful of very cheap prices for Ants control - check which pesticides are to be used - do they propose to use the far cheaper, less effective, solvent based pesticides which can be acutely harmful in premises where occupants may suffer from asthmatic or other bronchial ailments. |
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| How Much You Should Expect to Pay for the Ant treatment? |
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| The cost should be to solve your Ants problem - depends on the size of the property - intensity of infestation - number of bedrooms/areas affected - ease of access for inspection and ants insecticidal treatment. |
| Domestic premises: from $99 to $250 |
| Commercial premises: Quote is advisable after inspection |
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