Carpenter Ants
Give us a call today: 215-346-7160Ants can infiltrate a home seemingly out of nowhere. They’re extremely efficient, expert communicators, and small enough to fit in the most minuscule crevices throughout your property. If one thing is certain–carpenter ants are some of the most likely pests you’ll find in Bucks and Montgomery, PA, and they’re one of the most common reasons we’re called.
Unfortunately, carpenter ants aren’t an easy pest situation to solve. By the time you start to notice that you’ve got a carpenter ant infiltration, you might be seeing the more advanced signs of decay in your home. They excavate wooden structures to create their own tunnels, turning your wooden support beams and flooring into hallways they can travel through. Over time, these pests can do serious damage to your home and budget.
The expert pest control specialists at Carney All Seasons understand how devastating a carpenter ant problem can be, and our solutions are designed to rid your home of the problem once and for all.
Schedule a pest control appointment with Carney All Seasons to return your home in Bucks and Montgomery, PA to normal.
Damage Can Be Extensive
Carpenter ants have powerful mandibles that can carve up wood as long as they chew it parallel to the grain. By doing this over and over again, and with a swarm of them doing this over time, they can excavate even the largest and most complex wooden structures. It would be quite fascinating to watch if it weren’t for the fact that they could potentially do catastrophic damage to your home. All of this damage is expensive to fix!
You can usually tell if you’ve got a carpenter ant infestation by detecting these signs.
- Structural problems in your home
- Wooden shavings in certain areas
- Tiny holes and tunnels spread around wooden areas of your home
- Unfinished, sandpaper-like surfaces of wood in your home
- Moisture damage
Carpenter ants like chewing through wood that has a higher moisture content and their tunnels tend to be unfinished and have a sandpaper-like consistency. This is almost a surefire sign that you’ve got ants in your house.
The damage caused by a carpenter ant infestation can be extensive. The longer this problem is allowed to happen in your home, the more likely you are to experience large, structural damage that is extremely expensive to repair.
Carpenter Ants Are Uniquely Stubborn
Carpenter ants are social creatures that live in colonies throughout your home. They’re very good at communicating with the colony when they sense a threat. This means you’re going to have trouble using conventional pest control methods when carpenter ants take shelter in your home.
They’ll even live in your firewood piles or in storage sheds that are uninsulated. These can be where they start breeding until they eventually make their way into your house. Don’t let your home become a central location for a carpenter ant colony!
Common Pest Control Methods
Our pest control professionals are good at preventing carpenter ants and removing them.
Preventative measures include removing moisture or damaged wood, removing excess wood from your property or keeping it far from your home, and trimming branches.
Then, we’ll simply locate the nest and remove it entirely. Sprays are usually ineffective, so we’ll need to search through your home to find the queen and remove the nest so they can’t continue to breed or live in your home. Then the rest of them can be cleaned up with conventional supplies.
