{"id":7529,"date":"2019-09-27T10:41:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T00:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ppmmagazine.com.au\/?p=7529"},"modified":"2022-10-06T10:37:21","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T00:37:21","slug":"the-pest-ant-quick-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/pest-control-ants\/the-pest-ant-quick-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"THE PEST ANT QUICK GUIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Pest Ant Quick Guide is a one page summary showing photographs of the key pest ants, providing information on nest structure, number of queens, food preferences and recommended control strategies.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"hr-thick\"><\/div>\n<p>Dealing with pest ants can often be a challenge for pest managers. To implement a successful treatment program, pest managers must know some key information about the ant causing the problem:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Correct identification of the ant<\/li>\n<li>Does that species have a single or multiple nests as part of the same colony?<\/li>\n<li>Does the colony contain a single or multiple queens?<\/li>\n<li>What is their food preference?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This knowledge allows the pest manager to design a treatment program to get the best results. With baits a key component of most ant control programs, knowledge of food preferences is important to select an appropriate bait that is attractive to the species at hand.<\/p>\n<p>The Sumitomo Pest Ant Quick Guide summarises this information for the key pest ants and gives pest managers a great starting point with a recommended treatment regime.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Sumitomo-Ant-Cheat-Sheet-V2.pdf\">Download the Sumitomo Pest Ant Quick Guide<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"thin\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pest Ant Quick Guide is a one page summary showing photographs of the key pest ants, providing information on nest structure, number of queens, food preferences and recommended control strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7534,"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":"The Pest Ant Quick Guide is a one page summary showing photographs of the key pest ants, providing information on nest structure, number of queens, food preferences and recommended control strategies.","_seopress_robots_index":"yes","_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[],"company":[130],"pest":[167],"pesticide":[],"product-service":[],"class_list":["post-7529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pest-control-ants","company-sumitomo","pest-ants","wpbf-post"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529","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=7529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7529"},{"taxonomy":"company","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/company?post=7529"},{"taxonomy":"pest","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pest?post=7529"},{"taxonomy":"pesticide","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pesticide?post=7529"},{"taxonomy":"product-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/professionalpestmanager.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-service?post=7529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}