Christmas Pharaoh Ants
Every year around Christmas, the Pharaoh ants begin to show up in many houses throughout Delta. It’s the combination of the furnaces running a lot more and food, in form of crumbs, hitting the floor. Pharaoh ants eat food of all types, but particularly sweets with lots of sugar and carbohydrates. If you have seen Pharaoh ants attack food on the ground on or on the counter, they do so in swarms. They build nests in walls, cabinet voids, behind baseboards, refrigerator insulation and other undisturbed dark spaces Pharaoh ants have multiple queens per nest and move their colonies from place to place when disturbed, usually by someone spot spraying them with insecticides. Pharaoh ants begin new colonies by budding: when a small group of workers and a single queen migrate from their colony to start a new colony. To control pharaoh ants, it’s advisable to seek professional help because with these guys rarely go away without a complete crack and crevice spray.
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