Ant apocalypse in the Heilbronn area: pest control talks drama

Pest Control Alert: The Heilbronn area is currently the best season for an ant Armageddon. The result is multiple missions.

The weather has been playing in your cards for weeks: Temperatures exceeding 15 degrees, it’s raining heavily in places. And now it is hot – with high humidity. Unlike the wasp*, which was still extremely aggressive in late summer, perfect for this three to four millimeter large insect, whose population is currently assumed to be vast proportions – and causing apocalypse in the Heilbronn area, like echo24.d* Reported.

Pest controller Johan Akov has never experienced such an ant apocalypse in his job. The expert, who runs the company Effective Concepts in Heilbronn together with Timur Zhukenov, speaks of the dramatic conditions in the Heilbronn area: “It began to crawl at the end of March, at the moment the brown ant has also displaced the cockroach * , which Heilbronn, and most of our business is gone. According to Ekov, public institutions such as schools and kindergartens, but also countless private homes, are affected.

Ant Apocalypse: Pest Controller Heilbronn . I talk about destruction

And all these buildings, which are infested with the brown garden ant, have one thing in common: moisten the previous damage, through which the young queens who come out on hot summer days are still equipped with feathers. to nest. Usually this is in relation to rotten dead wood. However, even with damp materials such as plasterboard or thermal insulation panels made of polystyrene used for home insulation. Pest expert Ekov* explains: “The brown garden ants then break the building material into smaller pieces and carry it outside.”

Brown garden ants break building materials into small pieces and carry them outside.

Problem for owners or tenants of brown garden ant infested property: The infestation only appears when it is too late and the building is already badly damaged. And then things can get really disgusting, because ants, which are actually considered physical pests, spread feces and urine for their walking routes—possibly even on food. Such harmful pests* with potential health consequences for residents.

Ant apocalypse: This ant takes over the Heilbronn area

But what are the signs of infestation by the brown garden ant, which currently accounts for the largest amount of serious pest control* in the Heilbronn area? Johann Ekov explains: “Whoever finds aphid on his plants in the garden or on the terrace or balcony is predisposed to it – of course, additional structural damage to the property is described.” Because: Ants use aphids as food suppliers. They knock on the stomach of the lice, from which they secrete a sweet secretion. Ants swallow this excretion and take it to the nest for care.

Anyone who finds brown garden ants in a home certainly won’t be able to handle commercially available poisons—as the infestation has already reached enormous proportions. For the building, but also for the health of the residents. Akov, who also ends up munching on the pharaoh ant* on his wounds, reports: “We detect structural damage first, then the queen’s nest, into which we move her workers to a feeding gel.” With a fatal but redeeming outcome: “After four to six weeks the ghosting is usually over. *echo24.de is an offer IPPEN MEDIA.

RubriklistenBuild: © Johan Akov / Effective Concept