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Need to kill pavement ants? Pest Products Online provides great solutions for exterminating these pesky critters. They are small and feed on a variety of foods, including insects, honeydew from aphids, meats and grease found inside your home. They often enter your home looking for food and they can become numerous in a short period of time. One queen establishes a colony that can grow to have multiple queens and produce as many as 4,000 workers.  
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Pavement Ants
 
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Pavement Ants
Tetramorium caespitum
Color: dark brown to black
Legs: 6
Shape: Segmented; oval
Size: 1/8”
Antennae: Yes
Flight: often swarms in June and July

Habitat

These ants often make their nests in or under cracks of pavement or concrete slabs. They also nest under stones, in mulch, inside your house walls, wall insulation, and under flooring.

Health Risks

Although they have the ability to bite and sting, they are not usually aggressive.

Property Damage

These colonies can cause minimal property damage, it can be difficult to locate and eliminate the colonies once they are established.

Prevention

Remove potential food sources, especially meats and grease, inside your home by wiping up spills, keeping counter tops clean, and store food in sealed containers.

Eradication

Pavement ants are attracted to and feed on sweet and protein-based baits. Kness Liquid Stations with Terro-PCO- Liquid Ant Bait will work great (see below). Follow the ant trail, if you can, back to their nest and treat it with residual insecticide. Phantom is perfect (see below). Particular attention should be paid to cracks and expansion joints in slabs, driveways and sidewalks, use Phantom. Nest in wall voids are more easily treated by aerosol injection or application of a dust formulation. Can't locate the nest? Then use Phantom applied to:

  • foundations
  • plants
  • soil adjacent to the building

Pavement ant product recommendations

 Kess Ant Bait Stations

Terro-PCO Liquid Ant Bait

Phantom residual insecticde

CB 80 Aerosol (A0008) for wall voids

Tempo 1% Insecticide Dust (A0161) for wall voids

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