Ant Control & Extermination in Massachusetts, Cape Cod, New Hampshire & Southern Maine

Ants can be a nuisance when in your home. A1 Exterminators can get rid of ants in your home and keep them away. Our trained technicians are able to locate and exterminate the ant nest, ultimately eliminating them from your home. Ants will eat almost anything, crumbs around the house, fruit, nuts, other insects, meats, etc. They can climb up walls and enter buildings through cracks and small openings. Some ants can even bite or sting. With an A1 Exterminators Pest Prevention Plan, we will perform an initial survey of the property and provide on-going protection that includes three visits per year.

Repellents may kill ants in one spot but deter them from only that area, leaving the rest of the ant colony still alive and so they simply go somewhere else in the house. Quick pesticides may not kill the entire colony either. The best plan of action is a slow acting bait which will kill ants slowly. The ants bring the bait back to the rest of the colony, killing off the entire colony. This is what you want! Call A1 Exterminators today setup your free estimate for Ant Control at 800-525-4825.

Carpenter Ants

Carpenter Ants can be very damaging to the structure of your home and they are very common in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Carpenter Ants are among the largest ants and are black or dark brownish-red colored. They prefer damp environments so they survive quite nicely with our weather near the coast. Warmer weather and moisture in the spring attracts carpenter ants as they look for a new home. Carpenter ants tunnel through wood and in large numbers can cause major damage to your home. They are about ¼”-⅜” long. The queen can lay up to 15-20 eggs at a time, while the workers expand their home by digging through the wood. For more on Carpenter Ant Control CLICK HERE

Sugar Ants

Sugar Ants is actually a general term for ants, and not an actual species of ants. It is a name given to ants which tend to like sweet food. This sugar ant, could actually be a crazy ant, pharaoh ant, ghost ant, odorous ant or other species. Odorous house ants, shown above, walk in a line — while crazy ants are named for their sporadic turning behavior when they are around food sources. Pharaoh ants are one of the common ants found in the kitchen. They eat most things, but are attracted to protein. Ghost ants are tiny brownish ants that tend to cluster on counter tops in search for food.

Pavement Ants

Pavement Ants, shown above, are the ants that nest in and under cracks in the pavement or under stones around homes and buildings. Dark brown or blackish in color, these ants have large colonies with an average of 4,000 worker ants with queens. These ants will eat almost anything, crumbs around the house, fruit, nuts, other insects, meats, etc. They can climb up walls and enter building through cracks and small openings. They can bite or sting, and contaminate food if they get in it.

Ant Control & Extermination in Massachusetts, Cape Cod, New Hampshire & Southern Maine

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Pavement Ants are covered under the A1 Exterminators Pest Prevention Plan