Antex Pest Control Ltd.

Carpenter ant season is in full sWING!
These winged ants are breeders, queens and drones (winged male ants) that develop inside the nest, and emerge to mate and start new colonies. Well, the queens might, but the drones will die shortly after successfully mating, which is exhaustive for them, and they are unable to find food for themselves, succumbing to exhaustion and starvation.
DID YOU KNOW that all carpenter ants inside a colony are female? Drones are the only males, and only exist during mating season!
Less than 5-10% of queens will successfully develop a colony, even less will have a colony that survives very long. Factors such as predators, environment, access to food sources, competition, and even disease, stack the odds against our brave queens!
So if you see winged ants flying around your home this spring, know that you are witnessing a life or death struggle to survive against the slimmest of odds, and an adaptation that has successfully beaten those odds to become the most populous insect on the planet.
But, if you see that same miraculous spectacle occurring INSIDE your home, give Antex a call, we are ant experts, and we are a local, family owned, proudly Canadian company, and we are here to help!
(Not written by AI)