Ant Control Services
Why Are Ants Getting Into My Kitchen?
Ants come in where the house meets its foundation: the cracks and crevices at the base of the siding, the gaps around pipes and cable lines, the seam under a door sill. In the heat they come looking for water. In the cold they come looking for warmth. Year-round, your kitchen, pantry, and trash offer food, and once a scout finds it the trail follows.
Where Are the Ants Getting Into the House?
Most ants nest in the soil or in damp wood outside and forage indoors along the foundation line. Caulking the gaps you can see, pulling mulch a few inches off the foundation, and keeping food sealed cut the traffic; the foundation treatment handles the entry points you cannot see.
Three things that shorten the trip:
- Mulch and vegetation against the house
- A leaking hose bib or a downspout that drains at the foundation
- Crumbs or pet food left out overnight
Why Does Exterminating One Bug Invite Another?
The expensive way: homeowners can spend a lot of money exterminating one type of bug only to get invaded by another.
The shared door: ants, spiders, earwigs, and cockroaches all use the same foundation-level entry points.
The fix: a treatment aimed at the entry point, not the trail, stops the ants you see and the thirty other crawling insects you have not met yet.
How Our Ant Control Works
Our General Insect Foundation Treatment creates a protective barrier around the base of your home. A licensed technician uses a pump sprayer to treat underneath the siding where the house meets the foundation, into the cracks and crevices that serve as entry points, along the base of the exterior, and anywhere showing signs of activity. Ants are first on its list, along with spiders, earwigs, beetles, cockroaches, crickets, centipedes, millipedes, silverfish, stink bugs, and more.
How Does the Foundation Treatment Work?
Every visit starts with an assessment: where the ants are trailing, which entry points are open, where the activity is.
The treatment goes about three feet up the foundation and three feet out. On the full program, the first visit of the season also includes a granular treatment around the foundation and clearing spider webs from the exterior.
How long it lasts: the treatment adheres to the surfaces it touches and forms a long-lasting barrier that repels crawling insects and stops them before they get inside. In most conditions it stays active for up to 90 days, which is why our plans run three or four treatments a year to keep the barrier up.
Dry time: because it is applied to the exterior, the product stays outside where it belongs; give treated surfaces about an hour to dry.
One-Time or Year-Round: Which Is Right for You?
One-time: a one-time treatment starts at $129 when bundled with mosquito and tick service (starts at $299 as a standalone service), gives immediate relief, and typically lasts about three months before the potency wears off.
Year-round: different pests try to get in at different times of year, so our year-round program keeps the barrier up across every season. We also offer natural options for customers who prefer them.
- Foundation-only protection starts at $29 per month when bundled with mosquito service.
- The full program, insect plus rodent protection, starts at $59 per month when bundled with mosquito service.
What About the Ants Already Inside the House?
What you get: because the treatment works from the outside, ants already inside the house may keep moving for a while after the first visit. If ants are still a problem between visits, we'll come back out and leave a liquid ant bait.
How to use it: put a few small drops on the cardboard squares we leave with it, set them right beside the trails along baseboards, under sinks, on sills, behind appliances, and then leave the ants alone. Do not spray them. The workers carry the bait back to the colony, and seeing more ants in the first day or two is normal: they found it. Activity usually fades over a week or two, and heavier activity just needs more placements.
If they keep coming: we come back, retreat the foundation, and leave more bait. That usually puts a stop to the activity inside, while the foundation treatment keeps the next colony from coming in. We do not inspect or treat interiors; our work is preventative.
Mosquito, tick, and rodent protection are separate services and pair with ant control on one schedule. Ant control is available in Massachusetts and Rhode Island only.
Why Families Trust Mosquito Mike
Licensed Professionals
We're fully licensed to operate in every state we serve:
Massachusetts Pesticide License: AL-0056510
Rhode Island Pesticide License: 6863
North Carolina Pesticide License: 026-40208
Every Mosquito Mike technician holds a Core Applicator License and completes our comprehensive training program before treating a single yard.
Trained Technicians
Every Mosquito Mike technician holds a Core Applicator License and completes our comprehensive training program before treating a single yard. That includes classroom instruction, virtual reality training, and hands-on field work with experienced techs.
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Ant Control Near You
We provide ant control throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our products work on carpenter ants, and the foundation treatment covers them along with the other ants that forage in from outside. We do not guarantee carpenter ant results, because we do not inspect for nests before treating: our work is preventative, aimed at keeping ants out of the house rather than locating a colony inside the structure. If you think carpenter ants are nesting in the house, say so when you call and we will tell you straight whether our service is the right fit.
Up to 90 days. A one-time service typically holds about three months; the year-round program keeps the barrier continuous.
No. Our approach works from the outside: under the siding, into the entry-point cracks, and along the base of the exterior, stopping ants before they cross the threshold. For ants already inside, the liquid ant bait we leave on a call-back goes beside their trails and does the indoor work; if activity has not improved after about two weeks, or new trails keep appearing in several rooms, call us and we retreat the foundation and bring more bait.
The products take time to work and we do not inspect interiors, so ant control is not guaranteed the way our mosquito and tick service is. What we do instead: a plan customer with a continued problem gets the foundation retreated and ant bait for indoors, which usually halts the activity inside.
No. Ant control is a Massachusetts and Rhode Island service.
If you have put out the ant bait, seeing more ants in the first day or two is normal and a good sign: the workers found the bait and are carrying it back to the colony. Leave them alone, do not spray them, and keep fresh bait out while they are feeding. Activity usually fades over the next week or two.
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