Have you seen the writing on the wall? Have you noticed signs
that your home has carpenter ants, but have been hoping to ignore
the problem? It is actually a common issue. Carpenter ants don’t
give too many indications that there is a serious problem. Here is
how it usually goes.
One Ant
You probably don’t think too much about it when you find an ant
crawling around in the kitchen every once in awhile. You probably
do what most people do. You squish it with some paper towels or
tissue paper and throw it into the trash, but what you don’t know
is that most ants stick close to the nest until food is found. The
ant you squished was a scout. There could be hundreds or even
thousands in your walls. How is this possible? After all, don’t
they have to eat? Yes! But they don’t have to eat anything that is
inside your home. They do just fine feeding on the things that are
outside of your home.
Some Sawdust
You might have been down in the cellar doing some laundry or
getting a box out of storage and saw a few piles of sawdust and
didn’t even realize what you were looking at. Most people don’t
know that carpenter ants push sawdust out of kick out holes and
that this sawdust is often found in the cellar.
A Few Winged Ants
For the last few years you may have been finding a dozen or so
winged insects on the inside windows of your home and simply
vacuuming them up. That is certainly an easy way to get rid of
them. The problem is those winged ants are a warning sign that you
have a mature nest inside the walls of your home, and if this has
been going on for years, you may have a few nests.
A Line of Big Black Ants
If you have seen a long line of black ants going to and from your
pet’s food dish, an apple core left by one of your kids behind the
couch, or some other food source, you may still have missed it as a
warning sign. It is easy to think that those ants came in through
an entry point in your exterior walls, and not from a nest within
your walls.
It is important to recognize the warning signs of carpenter ants.
These pests are responsible for millions of dollars in property
damage across the U.S. each and every year.
Carpenter ants are a problem here in Minnesota. If you’re finding
them in your house, Adams Pest Control can get them out. There are
over 22,000 pest control companies in the U.S., and only 3% are
qualified to be designated QualityPro Certified. Adams Pest Control
is one of them. Serving the Twin Cities, Brainerd and Duluth as
well as most of Minnesota and Western Wisconsin, you can trust our
QualityPro team to make sure your home is free of these destructive
wood chewing pests. Every time!
