| Pharaoh Ant |
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| Size: |
1/15 to 1/12 inches long
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| Colour: |
Light yellow to reddish-brown
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| Food: |
Other insects, syrups, fruit juice, honey, cakes, pies, grease, meat or blood.
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| Nest: |
In
walls, under floors, above ceilings, behind baseboards, switch plates,
old trash, folded bathroom linens and outside areas. Nests are usually
found near warm places, furnaces, heat ducts and hot water pipes. Also
near moist conditions or open water.
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| Activity
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Day and night
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| Queen
Ant: |
Many to hundreds of thousands of workers per colony and they like to have multiple sub colonies.
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| Reproductive
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Job is to mate and look for new nest sites. Swarming is usually done inside the nest.
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Foraging
Ant:
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Job is to look for food, range widely from their nests.
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| Treatment: |
Chemicals
should not be used. This will cause budding. Budding is when the nest
gets too big so the primary queen will leave and establish a new nest.
This is what so easily causes infestation in buildings. Treated with
chemicals not only causes budding, but also causes panic and the colony
will start reproducing as many queens as they feel they need.
Variations of baits are used.
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