Carpenter ants can cause damage to all kinds of things but the damage does not start with your home. The damage begins usually in some rotting wet wood on your property. They may infest an old stump or that old shed you keep meaning to rip down. Or they could infest your fire wood pile. There are lot of places they can choose and when they find one they will start building a colony. This colony will feed on food all over your property, pet food, spilled ice cream and any food you drop on the ground outside. So keeping your yard clean of all food bits, storing your garbage in a tight locked container in your garage and not feeding pets outside is a great start to removing their food sources. Once the ants make a full colony they will venture somewhere new, and better, like your home to start making satellite colonies.These colonies come from ants that have reached maturity and grown wings. The males die and the females find a wall void or crack in wood furniture to lay her eggs and start her own colony.
Carpenter ants can be highly destructive, to have this taken care of contact carpenter ant removal service Brantford.
These ants do not eat wood. That is very important to know, they drill through it with their pincers. So the easiest way to find out you have an infestation is to go around your house and find little holes with powdered wood shavings in a pile beneath it. This is a sign that carpenter ants are in your home and damaging your walls. The presence of wings on the ground and dead ants is also a sign you may have a serious infestation on your hands.
Once you have identified that you have an infestation you should call the professionals at The Exterminators Inc. They can help you get rid of your ant problem for good!