Are Ants Overrunning Your Kitchen? Here's How to Repel Them Forever
Worse than cooking dinner is to come home to ants marching on your countertops, or worse, in your food. If you live in Las Vegas, you're likely no stranger to ants, particularly during the hot summer months when their activity is most prevalent.
But how do you keep them from overtaking your kitchen and working their way into your food? The solution is in effective ant control techniques that are specifically tailored to your kitchen.
At Buddies Exterminating, we excel at getting your kitchen ant-free and pest-free. With our professional ant control services, we make sure that your home is clean and ant-free. Let's find out why ants are attracted to your kitchen and how you can keep them from becoming permanent residents.
Ants will scavenge for food and water sources, and your kitchen is as good as theirs. From crumbs on the floor to sticky spills on the countertops, ants can smell these food sources from far away and infest your kitchen. But ants don't only seek food—ants seek moisture too. Leaky faucets, wet dishcloths, and even the humidity of your fridge can attract them.
In Las Vegas, where it's dry and it's normal, the hot weather can make your kitchen even more welcoming to these creatures. Whether it's fire ants, carpenter ants, or another prevalent species, knowing what draws ants into your kitchen is the key to preventing an infestation.
Ants are so minute that they can manage to get through the smallest cracks and crevices. They will most often enter through openings around doors, windows, and vents, and wall or foundation cracks. They make their way into the home and begin seeking food, and before you know it, they have discovered a steady supply in your kitchen.
The issue gets worse when ants deposit pheromone trails, and more ants walk right into your food. The domino effect can rapidly turn into a full-scale infestation if not stopped.
If you're faced with this infuriating problem, you need to act fast before the infestation is too extensive to tackle. It's also worth mentioning that home remedies generally do not cut it when it comes to eradicating these insects. While home remedies and over-the-counter sprays might instantly kill some ants, they will not make it to the nest, which is the source of the problem.
It is tempting to try to use DIY solutions like sprays, baits, or home treatments to get rid of ants. These do not usually get to the root of the problem, though. While sprays will kill the ants you see, they don't kill the colony or queen—the source of the problem. Similarly, baits will attract ants, but if not correctly placed and treated, they usually fail to get to the big picture.
Also, most of the home remedy treatments contain chemicals that are harmful to your family and pets, especially if used in the wrong way. For this reason, it is important to employ professional ant control services to eliminate your ant infestation issue securely and effectively.
To make sure that your kitchen is ant-free, there are a couple of things that you can do. First, cleanliness is the answer. Always wipe down surfaces, quickly clean up spills and crumbs, and put food away in closed containers. A couple of other things that you can do are:
Here at Buddies Exterminating, we specialize in offering solutions to numerous ant species:
Fire Ant Control: They can inflict a painful sting. Our treatment effectively removes them from your land.
Carpenter Ant Removal: Carpenter ants have the potential to destroy wooden buildings. We locate and eliminate nests to protect your residence.
Ant Exterminator Las Vegas: We locals have the ability to treat ant conditions specific to Las Vegas.
Our integrated process consists of inspection, identification, and treatment, and thus your kitchen will be ant-free.
We are interested in long-term solutions, not temporary solutions.
Our residential ant treatment technicians are trained professionals, providing solutions specifically tailored to keep ants out of your home and kitchen. From carpenter ants to fire ants, whatever ant you're fighting, we have the tools and the know-how to get the job done.
We use eco-friendly, family- and pet-friendly methods. We offer tailored solutions for Las Vegas houses, which have their own specific pest challenges. For further details regarding how we approach ant control for kitchens, visit our expert Ant Control page.
When there are ants in your kitchen, don't let the situation get out of hand. Contact Buddies Exterminating today for professional ant control. We're here to offer quick, effective relief that will bring peace back into your home and your kitchen, clean and secure.