Can carpenter ants destroy drywall

Can carpenter ants destroy drywall

Carpenter ants a deeply frustrating to have. An infestation can actually ruin your life and dramatically reduce the value of your home. They are capable of damaging wood to the point that it loses its structural integrity completely and a house that has been infested for years may even begin to collapse. Ants rarely start making their main colony in your home, that would be too dangerous. They also need some nice wet wood to create their nest. These nests will hold the eggs that will soon become worker ants. Eventually they will mature and ants with wings wil

Carpenter ants can be highly destructive, to have this taken care of contact carpenter ant removal service Brantford.

l be born. These ants can mate and create queens. The males die but the queens live on to lay her eggs in a crack in your drywall. Now just like wood, ants don’t eat drywall either. They eat similar foods to what humans and other animals eat, sugar, protein and plant matter. But when the queen lays her eggs in the crack and seals it off she will soon have a new load of workers who can tunnel through the wood and drywall of your house in order to make their new colony, this will repeat with every new breeding that happens with EACH of the colonies. So if you have three right now, you could soon have a dozen and that can expand rapidly. This is why these ants are so dangerous to the homes that they infest. When they are finished there will be very little of the house left. So if you have carpenter ants in your walls destroying wood and drywall then call the exterminators, we can get rid of those ants with ease using commercial and hospital grade insecticide mists that can be sprayed in places of deep harbourage. 

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