fire ants
It’s that time of year when fire ant mounds show up. It’s also a great time to treat them! In the spring the colonies are not as big as get later, so applying bait now means you can deliver a knockout hit before it gets tougher to fight them off. Look around now in your yard for mounds popping up, especially after rain. Check gardens by moving some dirt around to see if they come…
Even with cold weather fire ants can stay around. Normally, the mounds become dormant in cold months. But they don’t really hibernate, and they definitely are not gone! That is, unless you took our advice and treated them in the fall. As the weather gets colder, fire ants go further down into the to stay warm and survive over the winter. Then, when the weather warms in the spring and summer, as the saying goes,…
Is there a perfect time to treat for fire ants? Most people would answer, “Yes! As soon as I see them.” And that’s definitely not wrong. But is there a season where you can really make a major impact on them, and help keep them away even longer? There is! We’re getting to the time of year when fire ants are “desperate,” so to speak. This year in particular it has been extremely hot and…
With the extreme heat and long dry spell here in Austin, fire ants are becoming a problem. Okay, so they’re always a problem in Texas in the summer, but now they’re a BIG problem for many folks. As temperatures stay over 100 with no rain in sight, we are getting calls about fire ants coming inside. This can happen if you don’t spot them in your yard and they don’t get treated sooner. They will…
With the recent increase in rainfall, you probably will be seeing more fire ant mounds. Fire ants create mounds after a rain as they bring up the soil to clear out the tunnels they’ve created. For a fire ant service we don’t just focus on those mounds but treat the entire yard typically. This is because there can be ants in the soil throughout the lawn, so we cover as much area as possible to…
Has fire ant season already arrived in Austin? An unseasonably warm early spring has led to our technicians already spotting fire ant mounds near homes.
Fire ants have a dormancy period in the winter where they are not very active, but before that they can still be a painful nuisance in your yard. Just before winter is a great time for a “last-minute” treatment! Getting them to take bait down into the colony just before they become more inactive during cooler weather means that colony will be eradicated and not come back in the spring. Which means your yard will…
While insects are decreasingly active in the fall and certainly winter months, there are still bugs around to treat. In fact, treating some insects in the fall is an ideal time. Why? Because they are preparing already to “overwinter” or become less active, so it’s a great time to “knock them out” before they go off into relative seclusion. This is particularly true of fire ants who are far less active in the colder winter…
Sometimes fire ants show up in the worst places, like your vegetable garden. Is the only hope to plow under and quit? Definitely not! Fire ant treatments can be successful even around gardens. For example, we use a highly effective bait that can be placed outside of the irrigation line or watering area of the garden. It is extremely attractive to fire ants so they will move around and pick it up and bring it…
Fire ants are a summer-long problem around Austin and Central Texas, but there is hope on the horizon! During the hottest part of the summer, fire ants get desperate. Just like other pests they need food and water when it gets hot, and even more so as the seasons start to change and late summer shifts to fall and winter. That urgent search for food can be to a homeowner’s advantage! By baiting your yard…
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