Ants

Ants

  • Ants don’t sleep.
  • When the only queen ant dies, the entire colony dies.
  • Ants can lift up to 20 times its own body weight.
  • There are approximately 1 million ants for every human.
  • Ants move their jaws sideways, in a scissor-like motion, to get the juices from the food, because they can’t chew.
  • It takes approximately 3-6 years for ant colonies to reach their full capacity of 2,000.
  • Once this is achieved, satellite colonies are formed.
  • Once the queen ant mates for the first time, she will lose her wings and never fly again.
  • Ants can communicate with each other about many things, but more importantly danger and directions to food.
  • Ants are the #1 nuisance pest in the United States.
  • More than ½ of homeowners said they have/had a problem with ants in the past.