ith an estimated 10 million billion (yes, million billion!) ants in the world, it's no wonder that nearly every home has problems with these pests.  Ants are a staggeringly prolific pest.  In recent years they have become the #1 pest problem around the country, partly because more invasive ant species have expanded their territories.   It's not just that ant queens keep laying more eggs every day, but the colonies  themselves are easily able to start whole new colonies.

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Another common way some ants start new colonies is by budding.  If a colony becomes too crowded, or some other adverse condition arises, part of the colony simply leaves and starts a new colony.  The result is two or more complete new colonies with queens and workers, where only one colony previously existed.

People also wonder how large ant colonies can suddenly appear in their home, sometimes overnight!  Some kinds of ants have quite mobile colonies, and the entire colony----eggs, larvae, pupae, workers, and queens----picks up and moves to a new site whenever it suits them.

We are ant experts.  We understand these prolific, constantly invading pests, and how to get rid of them.

Swarming is one way new ant colonies get started.  Every mature colony develops fully reproductive, winged males and females.  These wait for ideal weather conditions, when many hundreds exit a colony all at once, mate, and look for good spots to start new colonies.  They then lose their wings, and the new queens eventually become simply egg-laying machines, cared for and fed by the other ants.

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