Why kill flying ants?
There is usually no need to kill flying ants, since they are a very short lived problem. Flying ants are not a separate ant species. Many different species of ants produce winged specimens that are responsible for reproduction. Carpenter ants will for instance start producing winged males and females (queens) when the colony exists of at least 2,000 carpenter ants. The flying ants will swarm, typically only once year. As soon as the mating has taken place, all the male flying ants will die. To kill flying ants is therefore rarely necessary; they will die automatically within a few hours and you will not be bothered again until next year. To kill flying ants that are female can however be a good idea, since they will start looking for a suitable place to nest as soon as they have mated. Several ant species can settle down in houses and cause a lot of nuisance. Spotting the female ant is usually easy since she is much larger than the males. When should I kill flying ants? If you discover
