The summer season brings a lot of unique adventures: swimming in lakes, ponds, or oceans, backyard barbecues, and exploration. However, it has a downside, and warmer weather will bring more ants.
Many animals hibernate to avoid the harsh winter months, including ants. The animals live deep under the snow during the winter and are usually buried until the warm weather. During spring and summer, however, they emerge. During the warmer season, ants come out to seek food and build nests.
So, why do ants appear in summers, and how can we prevent them? This is what we will explain in this article.
Why Do Ants Come Out In The Summer?
Ants began to come out when the temperature started heating up and created new nests. They produce offspring and become more active when the body temperature rises. They start searching for food, and your home is the best place for them. Your home could be a haven for any species such as thief ants, pavement ants, carpenter ants, or pharaoh ants. The ants present in the field and forest also become active in summers. Besides, when they find a reliable food source, they use pheromones to attract other ants. That indicates an infestation problem.
What Brings Ants Into Your Home?
When you notice ants in your home, you’ve to figure out whether it will cause a problem or not, or you’ll have to call a pest control professional. Also, you’ve to know what attracts ants into your home.
Firstly, moisture is essential for ants’ survival, so they’re coming in search of water at your home. Secondly, for food and a warmer environment, they enter your house. Because in summers the nights might be cool and your home provides an ants warm atmosphere that they need. Finally, if there’s easy accessibility to food, then they come over and over again to collect the food. However, ants will be a severe infestation if your home has water, food, and a warmer environment. So be careful!
Ant Infestation – Prevention
No matter how careful you are, ants can have access to your home thanks to their tiny size. Some preventions are mentioned below for your ease:
Keep food & drinks sealed
The food of humans, as well as pets, should be stored in tight containers. Likewise, keep the fruits and vegetables in the basket and hang them or keep them in the refrigerator because, on your shelf, these things attract ants. To prevent an ant infestation, make sure to rinse out the containers.
Keep your home clean
Please make sure the floors of your house are always clean and vacuum them regularly. Clean up your kitchen countertops and remove hidden food particles that might stay in your kitchen.
Look for entry points.
Ants always find new entry spots, so seal all cracks in the floors or walls of your home. Keep firewood stock outside of your home and create an ant barrier in your home on all entry points.
Contact us
If you are unable to get rid of the ants on your own which is quite likely, call a professional to take care of the situation for you. This is because ants are small pesky pests that always manage to find a place to hide in. And only a professional can get rid of them properly. Moreover, they will also find the sources in your house which are attracting the ants. Then, they will make sure that the source has been brought to an end. This way you won’t be having an ant infestation any time soon.
Give Quality Affordable Pest Control a call now or send us an email and we will get back to you.