Ants Control

An ant nest is the physical location where some or all of the ants return after foraging. Typically this is also the location where the eggs, larvae and reproductive ants are also located.

Depending on the species, an ant colony may be made up of one nest (“monodomous” or “single nest”) or many nests (“polydo mous”‘ or “multi-nest”). Sometimes a colony may consist of hum-dreds of nests over a large area, a so-called “super-colony”

In addition, some ant species have colonies with only one queen (a “monogyne” colony), whereas other species may have multiple reproductive individuals. These are “poly-gyne” or “multi-queen” colonies.

Only by killing all the queens in a colony will lasting control be achieved. A treatment may kill the vast majority of ants in a colony, but if even one reproductive individual survives and continues to lay eggs, the population will “rebound” and the ants may become a problem again.

Therefore, it is important to understand whether the species in question has a colony made up of one nest or multiple nests and whether it has multiple queens, as these factors have a big impact on the treatment regime.