The fire-ant reality of Coastal Georgia
Sandy soil, open lawns, and months of warmth — fire ants build here aggressively, and every thunderstorm triggers new mound construction overnight. Individual mound treatments handle the visible problem; broadcast baiting across the yard handles the colonies you haven’t seen yet. For yards with kids and dogs, we’ll recommend the two together and explain why in plain terms.
Argentine ants: the indoor marathon
Argentine colonies are huge, multi-queen, and unimpressed by repellent sprays — spray the trail and they bud into two trails. The fix is slow-acting bait they carry back, plus trimming the vegetation bridges and sealing the entry points the scouts found. Expect the trail to look worse for a few days while the bait works; that traffic is the treatment loading into the colony.
Carpenter ants and your framing
Carpenter ants don’t eat wood — they excavate it, preferring wood already softened by moisture. Finding them indoors means two problems: the colony, and the moisture issue that invited it. We treat the colony and tell you where the wet wood is, because a dry sill plate is the only permanent eviction notice.