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Travis McGowin
Hey, so today we wanted to come to you and talk to you just a little bit about ants. Ants are a very interesting insect, they’re very strong. I always like to tell my customers that if they were to pull their resources they can most likely and definitely take over the entire world. Their colonies just can be very large. And, and well, as we’ll show you in a video that we took on location at a customer’s house here in just a second, they can definitely work together to get a job done. So they’re very impressive little insects and, and, you know, you encounter them everywhere in your house. In your yard. There’s many different types of ants. So, Michael, give us a little information about ants.
Michael Wienecke
Yeah, so like you had said, ants are just, they’re really cool. I mean, they, they communicate, they they they set pheromone trails, so we always see ants traveling in a straight line towards someone’s house. There’s typically ants going in ants going out carrying something back to the nest. Ants do something really cool called prophylaxis where they actually regurgitate their food back to the Queen. And that’s how the Queen’s fed. And that’s how one of the ways that we get rid of ants is we bait them, and they eat that bait and then when they regurgitate that bat that bite back to the Queen, it kills the Queen and of course without a queen, you don’t have a colony.
Travis McGowin
Yeah, imagine imagine if that was the way humans actually had a trophy. Alexis is a lot of bricks. Yeah, exactly. Lots of insects, you know, feed each other through triple axis. But that is definitely kind of gross. But Miko you took some video footage for us if you want to kind of explain what’s going on here.
Michael Wienecke
Yeah, so I was just baiting an ant trail that I found going up a brick wall there. And it was really cool to see him. You know, this particular ant dragging a roach leg and doing it all by himself and just thought it was cool. And that That ain’t right. There’s communicating with that and saying, I would assume Do you need help? That was probably like, No, I don’t need help. I got this. And they’re stopping right now. And that’s what they’re doing. They’re literally communicating back and forth. Whether where to take that that food source or the food that’s already there. And I just thought that was very interesting.
Travis McGowin
Yeah, and, you know, like I mentioned, when we first started the video, the teamwork aspect of the answer is amazing and actually took a video that I thought was pretty neat. I was walking back towards my truck in a customer’s driveway and something caught my eyes I looked down and this is actually what I happened to find. So you can see the ants had kind of dried out looks like a dried out worm of some sort. And you can see the teamwork there. I mean, there’s probably what 20-30 Ants they’re all working together collectively, just to tote that one object across the concrete. So I thought that was pretty impressive and speaks a lot to the way the colony works together for one collective effort.
Michael Wienecke
Well, and it’s amazing to because those ants on the outside are switching back and forth helping those other ants carry that that that dried up worm so when you have answered your house, you have to understand that it’s they’re very complex, so they are very hard to get rid of because they they’re very strong. They’re very tough and where you’ve killed you know, you’ve killed 100 of them in your home. There’s there’s 1000 More to come.
