Ant Removal

Let the Professionals Handle Ants.

When is it time to call in a professional for ant removal? Today!

You don’t need to wait until you see ants in your home schedule a professional service. Schedule a pest control service before ants even appear!

If it’s too late to prevent ants from entering your home, don’t worry. Saela can get rid of any ants you have in your home and keep them away with our Protection Plan.

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Can I Get Rid of Ants Myself?

Prevention Is Key

Preventing ants from showing up in the first place is the best course of action. There are several measures you can take to lessen the likelihood of ants invading your home.

• Seal Entry Points: Seal any entry points where ants might be able to get in. There’s no need to try to seal every potential entry point. Focus on areas that are 3 feet high or lower.
• Keep Your Home Clean: Since ants are attracted to food and moisture, they will be attracted to places where these resources are readily available. Keep food areas, including pet food areas, clean. Prevent moisture from accumulating in places like bathrooms and kitchens by wiping them down.
• Keep Your Yard Clean: Keep the area around your home in order. Keep bushes trimmed and pick up loose vegetation like grass and leaves. Garbage, especially things like soda cans, are very attractive to ants. Keep trash cans clean and store them at least a few feet away from your home.

Disrupt the Pheromone Trail.

The best way to kill ants yourself is by getting them quickly with a wet towel or sponge. When scouting, ants walk in a single-file line and leave a pheromone trail. They use this trail to guide more ants to your home. You can disrupt this pheromone trail and prevent ants from following it to your home by cleaning it from beginning to end with a cleaning solution.

Know Where To Target.

Locating ant nests is a difficult, but critical step in getting rid of ants. Ants are attracted to water and food and will congregate in areas where these resources are available.

Start by looking in areas where food or moisture is present. Look near bathtubs, showers, sinks, pantries and kitchens. Ants are also found in attics or on exterior walls. Anywhere with spongy flooring or plumbing issues may be a potential home to ants.

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Types of Pest Control.

There are two main approaches to pest control, DIY and Professional. Below, we briefly address each approach in order from least to most effective.

Do It Yourself Pest Control

Natural Pest Control

We’re often asked how effective natural pest control options are. Natural pest control is the least effective overall and includes options like vinegar, borax, cucumbers, lemon juice, soap, essential oils, cinnamon and bleach. In general, natural options minimally repel a small number of ants and eliminate even fewer.

There is a lot of misinformation out there, so we asked one of our entomologists to shed some light on natural pest control methods.

Store-Bought Pesticides

If you choose to take care of ants yourself using store-bought pesticides, you’ll likely encounter the following options: baits, sprays, and granules. These offer better results than natural methods, but they still only provide quick, short-term results. They’re not designed to solve ant problems fully or long-term.

The downsides of store-bought options? Like natural options, they cannot offer the comprehensive approach needed to get rid of ants. Ants are difficult to eliminate and require an approach that’s comprised of the right combinations of products and techniques to be successful.

As if their limited effectiveness weren’t enough, store-bought pesticides can also make ant problems worse. Sound impossible? It's not. Check out our explanation of ant behavior for more information.

Here are some basic uses of common store-bought pesticides:

Remember, store-bought products for ant control will break down easily when they come in contact with the elements. Due to the volume of ants within a colony, ants will quickly overpower the low-grade products you find at the store.

Professional Pest Control

Professional pest control is the most successful pest control option available. Getting rid of ants requires the right combination of tools and knowledge. It takes having the right products to kill ants, techniques to get products back to the nest, and expertise to know how to do this effectively. Professionals have the tools and knowledge needed to get rid of ants. Professionals like Saela.

Here are the different components of our comprehensive Protection Plan and why they help us eliminate ants and other pests successfully.

Protection Plan

Wondering what this looks like in action?

As we’ve mentioned, a product must get back to the nest. We know ants are social, that there are a lot of them, and that the queen stays in the nest. If we only kill the ants outside the nest that interact with product, we won’t eliminate an ant problem. There are too many ants, and the queen will just reproduce to replace dead ants.

The solution? We use the ants' social nature against them by using products that act slowly and spread easily. Ants bring these products back to nest and then spread them throughout the colony. Our expert Service Specialists will also utilize additional techniques as needed until the nest is eliminated.

This small example shows why it takes understanding ant behavior, ant biology, professional products, and how to use them together the right way to be successful.

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