Termites are a huge nightmare to people but they cannot eat treated wood. However, your friendly neighbourhood carpenter ant absolutely can. They don’t eat the wood like termites so they can easily drill through it like it was any other wood. This, I’m sure will worry people with nice decks and pressure treated wooden sheds. You are safe from termites, but not from ants.
Carpenter ants can be highly destructive, to have this taken care of contact carpenter ant removal service Brantford.
Carpenter ants start their life cycle by finding rotting wood on your property, they rarely start in or on the house unless there is rotting wood they can infest. They do this to make a strong primary colony that can assist all the satellite colonies that will need assistance finding food and drilling tunnels. When the colony reaches maturity some ants will be born with wings, the females are new queens and the males are their consorts. After the mating dance they do while flying the males die and fall to the ground where they can be found as a sign of an infestation.
The females chew off their wings and feed on the muscle fibre from the wing muscles. She will use this food to keep her alive while she seals herself into a crack in your home, like your walls or furniture, and lays her eggs. She will wait till the worker ants are mature and then start building her own satellite colony. This process can happen very quickly and soon have your home filled so if you find carpenter ants dead on the floor with wings then you have a serious infestation on your hands.
If you need help dealing with an infestation your should call the exterminators inc., 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.