{"id":5603,"date":"2022-06-14T14:26:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T18:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exterminateuramontreal.ca\/if-you-are-invaded-by-the-ants-of-the-cobblestones-2\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T10:41:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T14:41:46","slug":"if-you-are-invaded-by-the-ants-of-the-cobblestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exterminateuramontreal.ca\/en\/if-you-are-invaded-by-the-ants-of-the-cobblestones\/","title":{"rendered":"If you are invaded by the ants of the cobblestones …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you are invaded by
the ants of the cobblestones \u2026<\/h1><\/div>
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In Quebec, we have close to a hundred species of ants. The ones we encounter most often are: the wood brown ant, the little black ant, and the ant of the cobblestones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The presence of a single cobblestone ant indicates the existence of a colony, either inside your home, or outdoors in the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When many of them infest your homes, cobblestone ants can, over time, cause land to subside and harm the crops of young plants in your garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do I recognize a cobblestone ant? How does it reproduce? What are his habits? How can you prevent it from bothering you? In the event of an infestation, how do you find a specialist pav ant exterminator<\/a> to help you get rid of them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some professional answers to all these questions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nom fran\u00e7ais<\/td>\nFourmi des pav\u00e9s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nom anglais<\/td>\nPavement Ant<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nom latin<\/td>\nTetramorium caespitum<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Description: how to recognize the ants of the pavement?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The ants of cobblestones or sand ants is identifiable by its pale brown or black color. It is an insect that measures about 4 mm in length.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His head and chest are marked by parallel lines. 12-segment antennae rise above his eyes. The peculiarity of the cobblestone ant is that it moves slowly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The workers of the cobblestone ants are sterile and wingless females.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The queens of cobblestone ants stand out from their workers. The only breeding females, they are 8 mm in length and their antennae have 3 large segments instead of 12. Like males, they also have wings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Life and reproduction cycle<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The ants of the cobblestones reproduce at a hellish pace. From spring to summer, males mate with queens. Once mating is complete, the males die. As soon as a queen is fertilized, she loses her wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She’s looking for a place to build an anthill for egg laying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The queen lays about 5 to 20 eggs per day. The eggs then give larvae then gradually into nymphs and finally into adult ants. 40 days will be enough to allow them to reach maturity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A colony of cobblestone ants has 3,000 to 4000 individuals. This unbridled reproduction is possible thanks to climatic conditions. Moreover, the sun is their strongest ally. As soon as he shows up, these bibittes activate until late at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lifespan of worker cobblestone ants is 7 years. The queen’s, 10 to 17 years old.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Is their invasion harmful?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

These ants nest in the following places: your kitchen, your garbage cans, the bottom of your cabinets, the paving slabs, parking spaces, cracks in sidewalks, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They feed on meats, honey, cheese, bread crumbs, sweets, cakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The intrusion of cobblestone ants can be devastating. Their massive presence forms galleries on the ground, the lawn and on any overgrown surface. By digging tunnels in the soil, this affects the roots of the vegetation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The structure of their nests degrades natural and man-made surfaces. They modify the ethics of landscaped spaces: lawns, gardens, parks, vegetable gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Their presence in large numbers can attract birds and other parasites, increasing the nature and size of the invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In their Indian line movement, the cobblestone ants leave small mounds of sand or earth on the terrace, under the doormat and on the slab of your patio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To maintain their queen, the worker ants devastate the gardens. They devour fruits and other crops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hantavirus, definition and mode of transmission<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hantavirus is a severe lung syndrome caused by a virus. It is secreted in the urine, feces and saliva of infected animals. Most often these are rodents. When humans come into direct or indirect contact with these secretions, the virus is transmitted to them. Ditto when they are bitten by infected rodents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the virus is not transmitted from human to human, only from animal to human. This type of disease is called zoonoses because they can only be transmitted to humans through an animal. It has been found that domestic animals (apart from the domestic rat<\/strong>) and livestock cannot contract hantavirus so there is every reason to believe that only rodents can carry it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Symptoms of hantavirus<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Being a lung disease, one of the characteristic symptoms of hantavirus is difficulty breathing. At the beginning of the disease, the infected person begins to feel fever, chills, headache and muscle pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is about two weeks after the appearance of the first symptoms that they are usually accompanied by a feeling of shortness of breath. Nevertheless, this last manifestation of the disease can be observed after two days as after six weeks; it depends on the organism of the individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hantavirus can also lead to kidney disease or infection. And although they are rare and very few people are prone to them, there is currently no treatment to combat these ailments. It is therefore better to be careful not to contract them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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15 tips to avoid an invasion of cobblestone ants.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n