Ants are the enemy of Landscape Lighting
Fire ants are one of the biggest enemy of your beautiful outdoor lighting. And it’s not just fire ants, other ant species are attracted to your outdoor lighting as well. Ants are attracted to heat and love building their mounds around lights. If ants can find a way to get into a light fixture or transformer box, they will. Fire ants will actually crawl up inside the lighting fixture with nesting materials such as dirt and make their nest inside the fixture destroying their electrical components. At best, this can cause the fixture to short out. In the worst case scenario, this can cause a fire.
So what do we do about Ants???
The Guru has an ant preventative that we add to new systems and can add to maintain and protect existing systems. They are added to every tree mounted fixture, every jbox, every power post and every transformer.
Another prevention technique used by Landscape Lighting Guru is improving the wire connections which are a common access point for ants. We use heat shrink connections instead of wire nuts to help prevent ants access to the wire. Not only does this improved connectivity, but it also will not allow insects (Ants) getting in. Additionally it will prevent all the corrosive elements that can deteriorate in your system.
Last but not least is best prevention technique is to have regularly scheduled maintenance to reapply the pesticide and look for any potential problems. Ants can be an easy fix if you catch it before they have done damage. When we provide yearly maintenance we have been able to prevent expensive damage and outages. Don’t let ants ruin your professionally installed landscape lighting system. Protect your investment by keeping the ants out! We offer lighting maintenance service plans for existing systems that includes the ant treatment.
It is also important that you treat fire ant mounts immediately when you see them. Especially if you see them close to your lighting fixtures!
