{"id":8371,"date":"2024-03-12T16:25:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T16:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.barnesexterminating.com\/?p=8371"},"modified":"2024-03-20T14:42:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:42:15","slug":"here-comes-the-swarms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barnesexterminating.com\/here-comes-the-swarms\/","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the SWARMS!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Imagine waking up, having a nice cup of coffee as you glance out your window to a warm, sunny day… to see that you have a swarm of flying bugs blocking your view! What are they you may ask? Often times, we see ants and termites come out in swarms to make their appearance. We’re going to dig right into finding out what they are and why they are there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ants, like termites, are social insects that divide their workloads into divisions. Also like the termite, ants colonies produce reproductive swarmers. The sole purpose of these swarmers is to begin new colonies. Most ant colonies can produce swarmers in as little as a year of colonization. Ants produce reproductive swarmers several times a year. Fire ants are known to have multiple queen colonies, therefore their colonies grow faster and produce larger amounts of reproductive swarmers. Each spring as the weather begins to warm from a cold winter, ants and termites release their swarmers into nature making<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n