Fire Ant Control in Cape Coral, FL

Fire Ant Control built for Cape Coral homes

Cape Coral sits on land shaped almost entirely by earthmoving: soil excavated from its extensive canal network was used to raise house lots, leaving most of the city built on fill composed of fine sand mixed with shell and limestone fragments. Fire ants thrive in exactly this kind of disturbed, loose substrate, establishing mounds along lawn edges, driveway borders and the raised ground near canal banks. With roughly 57 inches of rain per year and about two-thirds of that falling between June and September, saturated fill forces colonies to relocate mounds repeatedly, spreading them into landscaped beds and around exterior utility lines. Because freezes are rare and warm conditions persist nearly year-round, colonies never go through a full dormancy period. That unbroken cycle is why a continuing fire ant program fits Cape Coral better than periodic one-time treatments.