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The Finest
Pest Control Company in NorthEast, Ohio
Pest Control • Animal Trapping • Chimney Caps/
Exclusions • Termite
Treatments
Pest Identification: Ants
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(Crematogaster spp.) |
Description: - Size 1/8 to 1/4 inches
- Yellowish brown to red and black to black
- heart shaped abdomen (when looked at from above)
- Not usually found in households
- Found in decayed or partially decayed wood
- When excited they hold their abdomen over their heads
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(Tapinoma sessile) |
Description: - 1/8 inches long
- Brownish black in color
- Gives off a pungent odor when crushed
- Nesting is found indoors and outdoors
- Colonies are large and may contain many queens
- they move indoors late in year after honeydew is less abundent
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(Tetramorium
caespitum) |
Description: - 1/8 to 1/6 inches long
- Blackish brown in color paler legs and antennae and abdomen is
all black
- Usually found outdoors near buildings and pavement
- Can be found in walls, under floors and in insulation
- Can usually be found with slab on grade homes
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(Monomorium pharaonis) |
Description: - 1/15 to 1/12 inches long
- Light yellowish to reddish brown in color
- They can be distinguished by 3 segments in their antenna
- They have a wide variety of foods available to them
- Nests are rarely found
- Nests can occur between walls, under floors, above ceilings,
and behind baseboards
- They can feed on blood
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(Diplorhoptom spp.) |
Description: - 1/25 to 1/15 inches long
- Smallest household ant
- Yellow to dirty brown in color
- 2 segmented antenna
- Live in nests of larger ants
- May feed on stored seeds, dead animals and host ant larvae
- They like greasy materials
- Usually found in kitchens
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(Monomorium minimum) |
Description: - 1/15 inches long
- Jet black
- Feed on sweets, grease, vegetables, fruit, and meats
- They can nest in masonary, rotton wood, and woodwork
- Most nest outdoors
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