Ants may enter your house foraging for food or seek shelter. Understanding the behavior of ants will help you with the recommended pest control procedures outlined here. They enter through the smallest openings, foraging for water or food. They are in search of either sweet based food or protein/grease based foods.

Ants are incredibly capable and intelligent creatures. Though harmless, they can be a nuisance when they get into your home or business premises. Their complex and cooperative societies allow them to survive and thrive in conditions that would be otherwise challenging to us. Here are some interesting facts that you may want to know about this small but amazing pest.

The total weight of all the ants in the world is the same, if not larger than all humans added together. Ants are capable of carrying objects 50 times their own body weight with their mandibles. Ants communicate and cooperate by using pheromones that can alert others to danger or lead them to a promising food source. Foraging worker ants can travel up to 200 metres from their nest and find their way back to the colony by following scent trails left by others.