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Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill Apex Pest Control | Ant Exterminator

Ants A Common Raleigh Household Problem

Trapper Dan’s Wildlife & Pest Control

Ants, Ants, Ants Everywhere !!

One very common service we offer is solving ant problems for our Raleigh Triangle Area Residents. The best answer to staying on top of Raleigh’s Ant Problems is just like football and that is to have a good defense that works for you everyday.

Here in the Raleigh Garner Cary Apex area we find customers with such a wide variety of local ant names. In my research I have found 67 different ant species live amongst us here in the Raleigh Garner Cary Apex Area but professionally I have learned the following local names helpful.

The Raleigh Piss Ant

One of my favorite local names of ants would easily be the “Little Tiny Piss Ant” . What a name and I am sure it has nothing to do with urinating and that its just plain  little as in a ” itty bitty” ant. Another name may be a sugar ant, ghost ant or the crazy ant. Call us and we will identify your piss ant problem and treat it correctly the first time.

In our area we have quite a few ants that fit that description and the secret is not always blasting them with pesticides but identifying them, their choice of diet and bait them and go right to stopping the queen from laying more eggs.

Many of our customers learn the hard way that sometimes spraying the wrong pesticide can actually cause ant problems to get worse. For that little Piss ant it is best to have the problem ant correctly identified, and slowly introducing a Small poison to completely kill the colony rather then alert them , with spraying splitting into many new colonies and coming back with a vengeance.

The Raleigh Fire Ant

No this one does not go out and start fires. But if you ever had stumbled into a nest of fire ants you will end up feeling like your body was on fire. Folks may have allergic reactions similar to bee stings and you will never enjoy the out doors of your property again once they have found you and you elected not to have a regular pest control program. There is only one way to control them and not have fire ants problems and that is by a regular lawn maintenance program.

The Raleigh Wood Ant

Yes even ants can destroy wood and pose a threat to structures made out of or include wood as a building material. Most wood damage caused by a wood or carpenter ant starts with moisture damage, the ants carve out soft wood and start a colony.  Handling a wood destroying problem in your home may actually be caused by poor home maintenance and house design, subterranean termites, carpenter ants. Call us for a  complete inspection.