{"id":1426,"date":"2018-01-01T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T01:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppmmagazine.com.au\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2022-10-12T16:10:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T06:10:26","slug":"doing-the-hard-yards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/pest-control-ants\/doing-the-hard-yards\/","title":{"rendered":"DOING THE HARD YARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Problem lawn ants may be protein, oil or omnivorous feeders. Using a dual-action treatment covers all bases. <\/em><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

\u201cA number of my clients see ants in their yard and think they\u2019re going to take over the world. They really want me to do something!\u201d For Michael Snyder<\/strong> of Hornsby and District Pest Services, this is a fairly common reaction from a number of his customers in Sydney.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really want to reel out the hose and spray the lawn, it\u2019s not really the way to go or great for the environment. I\u2019m normally pretty skeptical about new products \u2013 I\u2019m pretty hard to please \u2013 but when I heard about Synergy Pro, it seemed like a good option,\u201d said Mr Snyder.<\/p>\n

Synergy Pro is a unique, granular ant bait containing two different food granules (protein and oil), each containing a combination of two different actives, hydramethylnon and pyriproxyfen.<\/p>\n

Mr Snyder has over 37 years of pest control experience and he puts at least part of his success down to researching new products before he gives them a go: \u201cI always like to talk to the reps, it\u2019s important that the data supplied by the manufacturers stacks up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Snyder has specific programs for certain ant species, such as white-footed house ants and pharaoh ants, but for treatment of \u2018lawn ants\u2019, where there could be more than one species, a more general treatment is required.<\/p>\n

Typically, ants found in lawn areas tend to be protein feeders such as green-headed ants and tyrant ants (both of which will sting), oil feeders such as the big-headed ant (coastal brown ant), and species with omnivorous feeding habits such as Argentine ants and acrobat ants.<\/p>\n

\"\"
Green-headed ants picking up the two different food granules<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWith its two different food granules, Synergy Pro<\/a> is designed to appeal to a broad range of ant species and still remain attractive as their food preferences change throughout the year,\u201d commented Charles McClintock<\/strong>, business manager of Sumitomo<\/a> Professional Products.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s the inclusion of the two different actives that maximises its impact on the population. Although hydramethylnon is the primary control active, the impact of pyriproxyfen cannot be underestimated. Being active at extremely low doses, even in large multi-nesting species it can impact the ability of the queen to lay viable eggs, leading to colony decline.<\/p>\n

\"\"
Synergy 500g<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSynergy Pro is gaining a significant following with pest managers looking to control ant pressure outside before they come inside or as a high value add-on service to a general pest treatment to allow their customers to reclaim their lawns from biting ants,\u201d said Mr McClintock.<\/p>\n

Mr Snyder recalled, \u201cWhen I first starting using Synergy Pro, I always told customers that it\u2019s virtually impossible to get 100% control, as ants will always move back in\u2026 but let\u2019s try and put a dent in the population and see how we go.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, these are fussy customers and I haven\u2019t had a single callback. Well, I did have one, and that was to tell me it had worked! Happy customers and no callbacks gives me the confidence that the product does the job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Synergy Pro is now available in 4kg buckets (4 x 1kg bags, vacuum packed to maintain freshness), as well as 500g jugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Problem lawn ants may be protein, oil or omnivorous feeders. Using a dual-action treatment covers all bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1428,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Problem lawn ants may be protein, oil or omnivorous feeders. Using a dual-action treatment covers all bases.","_seopress_robots_index":"yes","_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[],"company":[130],"pest":[167],"pesticide":[],"product-service":[191],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pest-control-ants","company-sumitomo","pest-ants","product-service-baits","wpbf-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"company","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/company?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"pest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pest?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"pesticide","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pesticide?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"product-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-service?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}