Pharaoh ant

It started with the pharaoh ant, but we now have other strains.

Pharaoh ants use pheromones as the primary means of communication.

- pharaoh ant - the most established of the invaders.

The researchers experimented with pharaoh ants, a common urban pest.

The pharaoh ant queen can lay hundreds of eggs in her lifetime.

The most famous is the pharaoh ant, which can be a considerable pest, especially in hospitals.

Budding is a major factor underlying the invasiveness of Pharaoh ants.

In a pharaoh ant colony, he explained, there are several queens, each with her own legion of subjects.

The Pharaoh ant is polygynous, meaning its colonies contain many queens (up to 200).

It is recommended not to exterminate using sprays and dusts because they will cause the pharaoh ants to scatter.

"With pharaoh ants, a residual pesticide will alarm the colony, and it will just bud off into several separate colonies."

The Pharaoh ant, Monomorium pharaonis is found around the world.

Pharaoh ants are a tropical species but they thrive in buildings anywhere, even in temperate regions provided central heating is present.

Pharaoh ants have become a serious pest in hospitals, rest homes, apartment dwellings, hotels, grocery stores, food establishments and other buildings.

Solenopsis molesta are sometimes mistaken for the pharaoh ant, because there are similarities between the two.

The minuscule, pale-tan pharaoh ants, which originated in Egypt and are about a sixteenth of an inch in length or less, live in huge colonies.

Pharaoh ants have been exterminated by placing baits, consisting of ground liver mixed with boric acid, in places where the ants forage.

For that reason, Mr. Bergquist said, it is usually best to use an ant bait when trying to eliminate pavement and pharaoh ants inside a home.

The Pharaoh ant has been introduced to virtually every area of the world including Europe, the Americas, Australasia and Southeast Asia.

Pharaoh ants are a major hazard in hospitals, where their small size means they can access wounds, driplines, and instrumentation, causing the spread of infection and electrical interference.

In his line of work, as well as pharaoh ants, mice, and occasionally moths, Tommy has to battle with snowboarders, pigeon-loving activists, and people who talk about property prices.

If it goes outside, he said, and if the ants in question are not pharaoh ants, then it might be possible to eliminate the entire colony in one mighty blow.