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Flying ants infestations

Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 8:51pm
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Hi all

In the last couple of weeks we have had flying ants infestation coming from our beams ( old cortijo). They just suddenly seem to hatch and drop out of gaps in the ceiling  beams!!! We have been blasting with insect spray and hoovering up!! Just had a new lot from the dining room ceiling on 3 beams at once!! Any advice or companies that could sort it? Itching all over

Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 10:23pm

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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 10:23pm

Think they may be termites rather than flying ants.   There is a spray that you can buy in the ferrateria that will kill them.  Not sure how you go about getting rid of them in a cortijo.  We had them in the door frames in a modern villa. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news and hope you get them sorted out.   Regards Karen 

Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 10:35pm

Vanessa4163

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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2021 10:35pm

LosPardoslady wrote on Sun Mar 28, 2021 10:23pm:

Think they may be termites rather than flying ants.   There is a spray that you can buy in the ferrateria that will kill them.  Not sure how you go about getting rid of them in a cortijo.  We had them in the door frames in a modern villa. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news and...

 

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... hope you get them sorted out.   Regards Karen 

Thanks for your reply. I’ll try tomorrow for the spray!!

Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:00pm

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Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:00pm

Hi Vanessa,

They are termites and you need to get rid of them they will destroy your beams, you need to inject your beams with a solution called  Carcoma Termita Polilla, you can get it from any ferreteria, its comes with a long fine tube, you have to insert the tube into the holes in the beams that the termites have made to kill them off. 

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