Ant Infestation and STRATA’s professional treatments

Ant exterminators at STRATA Pest Control in Melbourne know all common ant species and will help you eliminate ant infestations. Our team of pest control experts can determine which type of ant is causing your problems. Unlike other pests, it is very important to be able to correctly identify the type of ants living in your home in order to effectively deal with them.

The exterminator will then help you clear the area for ants and place special baits and traps for that type of ant. Consequently, most exterminators will kill ants in your home by creating a combination of ant traps and poison baits. The ants collect the bait and then return to the colony to eat, poisoning the entire colony.

Ants eat a variety of foods and are small enough to crawl into most crevices in your home. If the ants are carpenter ants, for example, they will eat in the structure of your home, and they can do real damage. Carpenter ants are a nuisance because they can cause serious property damage by digging tunnels through the wood structure of your home. Unlike most ants, carpenter ants are wood-destroying pests and build their nests in rotting or moisture-damaged wood.

Professional tools, skills and experience are required to control the number of carpenter ants and completely exterminate them. Our exterminators have many tools to keep ants out of your home, mitigate their effects, and exterminate them.

Whether your home or business needs ant extermination services, we can help. If you have a small infestation and need to get rid of ants in your kitchen or elsewhere in your home, you can consider ways and means of killing ants yourself, but there are many different types of ants that can enter your home, and a licensed pest control professional is the most effective way to get rid of an ant infestation.

Home remedies can help to a limited extent, but when you contact STRATA Pest Control, we can provide ant remedies that not only kill the ants you see, but also the ones you don't. To deal with an ant infestation in or around your home, most exterminators will first develop a pest control strategy based on the type of ant. The ant colony will most likely spread to other parts of your home or office until the ant infestation problem is resolved.

Locating the nest is the surest way to get rid of the infestation, but it is very difficult, so ant trails use bait that will bring the toxin back into the colony. Tracking a nesting site is the key to eliminating ant infestations. Pharaoh ants, for example, are known to have many colonies, so all ant tracks must be activated.

If you have a severe infestation, you will likely see a long, continuous line of ants carrying food from the source to their colony. Nests are difficult to find because some types of ants travel long distances in search of food. When scout ants find a food source in your home, they draw a chemical trail that other ants can follow. In addition, ants can build nests in many outdoor areas and simply enter your home to find food or water.

Some species of ants like to build their dwellings in walls or other quiet, dark places that can be hard to find. Ant infestations are not an uncommon problem to be seen in any home, however they can be very annoying to those who see them inside and outside the home. The problems people face can also vary from situation to situation, as they can be found inside the house, outside, in the yard, and other places where they can make their presence known.

Once the exterminator has identified the ant species, one of the next steps is to determine what type of insect treatment is appropriate for that situation. We then use a custom plan to figure out where the nest is and carefully destroy the ant type without disturbing you or your home. We  will identify which species of ants have entered your home and apply one of our proven methods to permanently eliminate your ant problem.

If ants have already settled in your kitchen or bathroom, we will make it easier for you to control and exterminate ants. While the cost of hiring a professional exterminator can be more expensive than solving the problem yourself, you can be sure that your provider will solve your ant problem and answer any questions you may have. When you hire one of our ant exterminators, you get a highly trained professional in ant biology who will come to your home armed with all the necessary supplies to get the job done right.