Ants
Are Ants causing problems in your kitchen? Our professional pest control technicians can help.
We deal with three species of ants on a regular basis. Our treatment price and type of treatment will depend on the species of ant.
The commonest species of ant we are all familiar with is the black garden ant (Lasius niger). Our treatment price for black garden ants inside a domestic property is £96 including VAT per visit.
Treatments for other ants: brown ants, Pharaoh ants or Ghost ants will be subject to quotation. Please contact us if you require help with any of these species of ant. Alternatively, if you are unsure which species of ant it is, try to catch an ant on a piece of tape and send it to us together with your contact details for identification.
Prevention and Control
- Ensure all food waste and spillages are cleaned up immediately
- Keep foods in sealed containers, especially sweet foods like sugar
- Avoid leaving pet food out for long periods of time
- Ensure that rubbish bins are emptied regularly
- Cracks and crevices and other faults in the building structure should be sealed with mortar/cement or mastic, as appropriate to prevent ingress by ants.
Start treatments when the first signs of activity are observed, normally in late spring
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Facts about black garden ants
Nuisance
Black garden ants are a nuisance pest, but not a risk to human health.
When to treat
Start treatment when the first signs of activity are observed, normally in late spring
Flying Ants
During the summer, usually hot humid days, winged flying ants, which are the reproductive males and females, have nuptial swarming flights. Mating takes place in the air and the female then seeks out a nest site where she stays for the winter, laying eggs the following spring in order to start up a new colony. This is a natural occurrence and flying activity should be over within 48 hours. We are unable to carry out treatments whilst ants are flying.
Food
Ants feed on a wide range of foods but are particularly attracted to sweet substances such as sugar or honey and will often invade homes, kitchens and cupboards etc. in search of such food
Trails
When a foraging worker ant successfully locates a food source, it is able to communicate this information to its co-workers which can lead to substantial numbers of worker ants invading and contaminating human foods.
Nest
Ants nest outside in grass, walls, under paving, and will happily enter buildings in search of food.
Control
Control measures are only required when ants are invading or living inside properties.
Contact us today for a quote
Call us on 01491 628 200 for a quote, our prices are based on whether it’s a one-off visit or you require a course if visits.
You can’t go wrong with our reasonable price structure, alongside top-quality pest control services with no hidden charges.
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Common Insects and Rodents
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RG1 Reading
RG2 South Reading, Whitley, Aborfield, Shinfield
RG4 Caversham, Emmer Green, Sonning Common, Chalkhouse Green, Sonning-on-Thames, Playhatch, Mapledurham, Tokers Green, Kidmore End, Gallowstree Common, Dunsden, Cane End
RG5 Woodley
RG6 Earley, Lower Earley
RG7 Aldermaston, Beech Hill, Beenham, Bradfield, Brimpton, Bucklebury, Burghfield Common, Chapel Row, Englefield, Farley Hill, Grazeley, Mortimer, Sheffield Bottom, Silchester, Southend, Spencers Wood, Stanford Dingley, Stratfield Mortimer, Stratfield Saye, Sulhamstead, Swallowfield, Theale, Three Mile Cross, Ufton Nervet, Upper Bucklebury, Wasing, Wokefield Park
RG8 Aldworth, Ashampstead, Lower Basildon, Upper Basildon, Checkendon, Cleeve, Cray's Pond, Exlade Street, Goring, Pangbourne, Purley-on-Thames, South Stoke, Streatley, Sulham, Tidmarsh, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Whitchurch Hill, Woodcote
RG9 Aston, Binfield Heath, Bix, Cookley Green, Fawley, Fingest, Frieth, Greenfield, Greenlands, Greys Green, Hambleden, Harpsden, Henley-on-Thames, Highmoor, Lower Assendon, Lower Shiplake, Middle Assendon, Mill End, Nettlebed, Nuffield, Park Corner, Pishill, Remenham, Remenham Hill, Rockwell End, Rotherfield Greys, Rotherfield Peppard, Russell's Water, Shepherd's Green, Shiplake, Skirmett, Stoke Row, Stonor, Turville, Turville Heath
RG10 Cockpole Green, Charvil, Crazies Hill, Hare Hatch, Hurst, Kiln Green, Knowl Hill, Ruscombe, Shurlock Row, Twyford, Waltham St Lawrence, Wargrave, Warren Row, Whistley Green
RG12 Bracknell, Easthampstead, Popewood
RG18 Frilsham, Hampstead Norris, Yattendon, Hermitage
RG19 Ashford Hill, Headley, Bishop's Green, Greenham, Thatcham (West Berkshire)
RG20 Ashmansworth, Chieveley, Compton, Ecchinswell, Leckhampstead, Highclere, Kingsclere, Sydmonton
RG26 Tadley, Baughurst, Bramley, Brimpton Common, Hannington, Pamber End, Pamber Heath
RG30 Tilehurst, Purley-on-Thames
RG31 Calcot, Tilehurst, Burghfield
RG40 Finchampstead, Wokingham
RG41 Barkham, Sindlesham, Winnersh, Wokingham
RG42 Binfield, Hawthorn Hill, Priestwood, Warfield, Winkfield Row, Bracknell Forest
RG45 Crowthorne, Bracknell Forest, Wokingham
OX10 Wallingford, Benson, Berinsfield, Cholsey, Dorchester
OX49 Watlington, Christmas Common, Cuxham, Stokenchurch, Chalgrove
OX11 Blewbury, Harewell, Aston Tirrold, North and South Moreton
OX14 Sutton Courtney, Abingdon
SL0 Iver, Iver Heath, Richings Park, Thorney
SL1 Slough, Burnham, Cippenham, Chalvey, Upton, Littleworth, Salt Hill
SL2 Britwell, Farnham Common, Farnham Royal, Stoke Poges, Egypt, Hedgerley
SL3 Langley, Datchet, Colnbrook, Poyle, Horton, Fulmer, George Green, Wexham
SL4 Windsor, Old Windsor, Eton, Eton Wick, Clewer, Dedworth, Cranbourne, Winkfield, Dorney, Spital, Oakley Green, Woodside, Boveney
SL5 Ascot, Sunninghill, Sunningdale, North Ascot, South Ascot, Burleigh, Cheapside
SL6 Maidenhead, Taplow, Bray, Bray Wick, Cookham, Cookham Dean, Cookham Rise, White Waltham, Hurley, Hurley Bottom, Holyport, Pinkneys Green, Woodlands Park, Furze Platt, Hitcham, Littlewick Green, Burchett's Green, Paley Street, Stud Green, Touchen End
SL7 Marlow, Marlow Bottom, Little Marlow, Medmenham, Bisham, Lower Woodend
SL8 Bourne End, Well End
SL9 Gerrards Cross, Chalfont St Peter, Chalfont Common, Horn Hill
HP8 Chalfont St. Giles
HP9 Beaconsfield, Forty Green, Holtspur, Jordans, Knotty Green, Seer Green
HP10 High Wycombe, Flackwell Heath, Handy Cross, Hedsor, Loudwater, Penn, Tylers Green, Wooburn, Wooburn Green, Wooburn Moor
HP11 Wycombe Marsh
HP12 High Wycombe, Booker, Sands
HP13 High Wycombe, Downley, Totteridge
HP14 Beacon's Bottom, Bledlow Ridge, Bolter End, Bradenham, Cadmore End, Hughenden Valley, Ibstone, Lane End, Naphill, Northend, Stokenchurch, The City, Upper North Dean, West Wycombe
GU15 Camberley
GU17 Blackwater
GU18 Lightwater
GU19 Bagshot
GU20 Windlesham
GU25 Virginia Water
GU46 Yateley
GU47 Sandhurst
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