Start Outside
Professional treatment always begins with removing outside attractants. That includes trimming bushes, moving wood piles, and inspecting nearby trees. You can’t treat what you don’t understand.
Foundation Treatment and Indoor Baiting
We apply a targeted product like Alpine WSG along the home’s foundation. Indoors, we bait along ant trails, often behind electrical faceplates or under baseboards. Sometimes we use bait trays when needed. If that still doesn’t work, we might drill into wall voids and inject expanding foam pesticides. That is our last-resort option when ants keep returning.
Schedule Matters
We typically do a follow-up visit 30 days after the initial treatment to address the egg cycle. Some cases resolve in one visit, but others need that second round to fully break the cycle.
Sugar Ant Description
Size
The sugar ant is very small—measuring about 2.4-3.3mm long. They are typically about as small as a pencil eraser. Although they are small, they quickly become noticeable as they swarm around food or stream through your home in a line.
Color
Sugar ants are typically black in color.
Smell
This might sound strange, but when crushed, sugar ants release an unpleasant, coconut-smelling odor. Sugar ants have a gland that releases this smell and it’s why they are called the odorous house ant.
