Ant Control Services in Virginia Beach & Hampton Roads

Small dark ants that give off a rotten-coconut smell when crushed and stream indoors after sugars, especially in spring and after heavy rain. Repellent sprays make them worse by triggering the colony to bud into satellite nests, so we bait them rather than chase the trail.

Large black ants that excavate smooth galleries in damp structural wood — floor joists, sills, and rain-softened fascia. They are a wood-destroying insect, not a nuisance, and a carpenter ant nest almost always points to a moisture problem worth addressing alongside the colony.

Imported fire ants build raised dirt mounds across sunny yards and deliver a painful sting when disturbed. Treatment targets the mounds and the surrounding turf rather than the house interior, since they nest outdoors in the warm coastal soil.

Named for the nests they build under driveways, patios, and slab edges, they follow expansion joints and weep holes indoors. Baiting at the trail plus a perimeter treatment along the slab is what interrupts them.

We walk the trails inside, then the foundation, mulch beds, and crawl space or slab edge outside to find the nest and the conditions feeding it. For carpenter ants that means checking the damp wood and leak sources they depend on.

Targeted transfer baits and a perimeter treatment reach the queen and intercept new trails, instead of the contact sprays that only kill the workers you can see.

You get the species, the entry points, and the recommendation in writing, backed by our Pest-Free Guarantee — if covered ants return between visits, we come back at no charge.