Fun Ant Facts

Did you know . . .

• An ant can lift 20 times its own body weight. If a 175-pound man had the comparative strength of an ant, he could lift four tons.
• Fire ants first entered the United States in the 1920s through the port of Mobile, Alabama.
• Odorous house ants may be difficult to control because they don't feed much from baiting stations.
• 32% of households that experienced ants called a professional. 

So if you find that you are having an ant problem, call Dave at 1-800-400-6009.

Dave's Pest Control
1-800-400-6009
A Central Massachusetts Extermination and Pest Control Company
Worcester County Pest and Rodent Exterminators
www.davespestcontrol.net

Reference: www.pestworld.org

More Facts About Ants

Did you know all this about ants?

• If crushed, the odorous house ant worker gives off a rotten coconut odor, hence it's name.
• An ant can lift 20 times its own body weight. If a 175-pound man had the comparative strength of an ant, he could lift four tons.
• African weaver ants can haul prey weighing more than 1,000 times their own weight up trees to their nests mainly through the aid of large adhesive pads on each foot.
• Odorous house ants are common in California north to Washington and are the most common pest ant in the mid-south region of Arkansas and West Tennessee. They may be encountered occasionally throughout the Midwestern United States.
• Fire ants currently infest 14 states in the southern portion of the U.S.

Dave's Pest Control
1-800-400-6009
A Central Massachusetts Extermination and Pest Control
Company
Worcester County Pest and Rodent Exterminators
www.davespestcontrol.net

Reference: www.pestworld.org