'I'm a pest control - Here's 3 ways to keep your home safe from flying ant invasion'
He explained: “They like to nest in sandy earth so the perfect place for them is if you have a rock paving driveway because that is based on sand.“Soon your drive could start to sink - or they’ll start going through the mortar of your property to find warmth.
The most common type of flying ant is the black garden variety , whose nests have a single queen and anything from 5,000 to 15,000 workers.While workers, who are all female, live for around a month, queens can live for over 10 years. After mating, the queens lose their wings - and those pesky larger ants you see walking around alone are in fact new queens hunting for somewhere to set up their nest.
“You need to get it done before they dispatch the new queens. If you leave it, every queen is going to be another nest next year.
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