Lasius niger

Ants

A trail in the kitchen is foragers from a nest that is usually outside the wall.

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House exterior where a perimeter treatment is applied.

What you see

  • A defined trail of ants across a worktop, floor, or threshold
  • Fine soil or debris pushed up between paving or at the wall base
  • Flying ants on a warm, humid day when the nest sends out its swarm

How the barrier deals with it

  1. 01 A slow bait taken back to the nest, so the colony fails rather than the trail you can see
  2. 02 A residual band at the threshold and wall base — the line the foragers cross
  3. 03 The external nest located and treated at source where it can be reached

Not sure it is ants? Send us a photo — we will tell you what it is and what it takes.