Pavement Ants

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Pavement Ants Pavement Ants are a common house invading pest in Georgia. Their nests are often located outdoors in pavement cracks, along curb edges, under large stones, and in all types of crevices. Pavement Ants usually enter homes or buildings through cracks in foundation walls and concrete slabs. A telltale sign of their presence is small sand piles or soil particles near cracks.

Pavement Ants may forage in the home throughout the year, feeding on sugar, nectar, grease, meat, insects, honeydew, and syrups. These ants will consume nearly any type of food particle that they find.

Workers are sluggish, between 1/12" to 1/4" inch long, light to dark brown or blackish, hairy, 12-segmented antennae with a three segmented club, a pair of short spines at the rear of the thorax, two nodes in the petiole, pale legs and antennae, and the head and thorax furrowed with parallel lines or grooves running top to bottom. Pavement Ants have a stinger in their last abdominal segment.

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Getting rid of Pavement Ants can be very difficult for many home owners because Pavement Ants can be very stubborn and hard to eradicate. Getting rid of Pavement Ants may require using baits however baits containing hydramethylnon, fipronil, or boric acid are slower acting and do not kill the workers before they have had a chance to share the baits with the queen and developing immature ants. Our ant control specialists can eliminate your Pavement Ant problem, and give you ideas on how to ant-proof your property.