Ant Identification & Prevention

Ants in Texas live quite successfully outside; our warm temperatures allow them to remain active year-round. While ants prefer to live outside, they will move into our homes while foraging for food or to escape harsh weather conditions. In San Antonio, ants regularly move indoors to escape hot temperatures and drought conditions.

Ants are not pests that hide their presence. If ants are in your home, you will spot them out and about during the day, crawling over tables, counters, and floors, foraging for food. Their nesting sites are usually in hard-to-reach areas of your home, like wall voids, crawl spaces, attics, electrical equipment, or structural wood.

If you are noticing regular ant activity in or around your house, take action and call Accurate Pest Control. Our experts are happy to provide the commercial pest control solutions necessary to remove these pests from your home and help you stop them from returning in the future.

Many factors attract ants to our properties. The three biggest reasons ants become permanent fixtures in and around our homes are because they offer food, water, and shelter.

Our yards and homes offer ants many sources of shelter. Carpenter ants like to nest in fallen trees, tree stumps, or structural wood in our homes damaged by moisture. Suburban yards often attract fire ants that like to nest in open sunny locations. The damp soil found in gardens and flower beds provides acrobat ants and many other ant species with the soil they seek in which to create their nests.

Though moisture and shelter sources are essential, food is usually the biggest reason ants find their way to our properties. Ants are omnivores and eat various sweets, fruits, vegetables, seeds, and proteins. Trash cans, outdoor eating areas, kitchens, and pantries provide ants with reliable food sources.

While you shouldn't feel the need to run away in fear after coming across an ant, some species are dangerous, and you should not underestimate their ability to cause harm. Dangerous ants are those like the fire ant or pharaoh ant that can cause harm to people or the carpenter ant that causes damage to our property.

If ants have taken over your San Antonio property, it is always best to consult with a professional. Pest control experts will accurately determine the ant species present and devise a plan to eliminate and control them. Getting rid of ants from your property as quickly as possible is always best will minimize their damage.

Ants are small social insects that live together in large colonies. Each colony divides its members into different groups, and each group has a job that helps the colony to succeed. Ants are so successful because of their ability to work as a team and communicate with each other. They work militantly to build and maintain their nest, gather food, care for their young, and defend the colony from harm.

Some of the most common species of ants to become a problem for San Antonio homeowners include:

• Acrobat ants
• Carpenter Ants
• Crazy Ants
• Fire Ants
• Ghost Ants
• Leaf Cutting Ants
• Pharaoh Ants
• Rover Ants

Each ant species is unique, so the best way to identify and control ants in San Antonio is to partner with a local professional. Accurate Pest Control is here to meet all your home pest control needs.