Ant Life Cycles & Habits
Ants are social insects that live in colonies or nests that are usually located in the soil near the house foundation, under concrete slabs, in crawlspaces, in structural wood or in your dwelling it’s self. Ants have three classes, namely queens, males and workers. Depending on the species, a colony may have one or more queens.
Workers are sterile wingless females. New ant colonies are started by a single fertilized queen that lays eggs and tends to her larvae and pupae that develop into worker ants.
Tending of the brood is then taken over by the worker, which may shift the brood from place to place as moisture and temperature fluctuate in the nest. When workers forage for food for the queen and her young, they often may enter houses, cottages, resorts and businesses and become a nuisance by their presence, contaminate food and weakening of structures.
Ants create new colonies by a process of swarming or budding. The appearance of winged queens and smaller winged males means that swarming is taking place. The ants may come indoors at this time and sometimes try to take up residence.
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