With carpenter ants, you usually don’t see any damage on the outside surface of the wood, but when you break into the wood, you’ll find galleries. Unlike termites, carpenter ants are completely housed inside the wood with no soil connection, so there’s no dirt‑like material in the wood galleries. Carpenter ant galleries are clean and
VIEW MOREThere are a number of signs that can tell you whether or not you have a carpenter ant problem. For example, have you seen large‑winged ants indoors in any number? Winged carpenter ants are the swarming form and are often mistaken for swarming termites. Winged ants are produced when a colony reaches a certain size.
VIEW MOREIf carpenter ants don’t eat wood, why should I be concerned if I have a few in my house? I’ve had ants before and they eventually go away.–B.E., Holden, MA Are The Ants Just Foraging or Are They Nesting? You shouldn’t necessarily be concerned if you have just a few carpenter ants in your house.
VIEW MOREYou keep seeing those large black ants wandering around your kitchen. You’ve finally figured out that they are carpenter ants and now you’re worried about whether they are damaging your home. Where did they come from? If you’ve had a positive identification of carpenter ants from an exterminator, you may already know that there are
VIEW MORECarpenter ants or termites? Katlyn Graham: Now I have read that a lot of people confuse carpenter ants and termites. What is the difference between termites and carpenter ants? Tim Chace: That’s also a question we encounter almost daily. Two things are going on. The type of damage that carpenter ants and termites do is vastly
VIEW MOREKatlyn Graham: Hi, I’m Katlyn Graham, here with Tim Chace, a pest control technician and entomologist with Colonial Pest. Welcome, Tim. Tim Chace: Hi, Katlyn. Katlyn: How are you today? Tim: I’m doing fine, thank you. Carpenter ants in Massachusetts and New Hampshire Katlyn: We’re going to tap your expertise once again. This time, with
VIEW MOREFinding Carpenter Ants Question We’ve been finding big carpenter ants in our home for a couple of years. We contacted an exterminator in Groton. They came out but said they couldn’t do anything to permanently get rid of the problem since they couldn’t find the ants’ nest. They sprayed around the baseboards but the ants
VIEW MOREUnlike termites, carpenter ants don’t eat wood, they excavate it to make their nest. They work inside the wood, hollowing out broad, smooth galleries where they lay eggs and raise their young. In many parts of the country, carpenter ants are not considered to be as important in causing wood damage as subterranean termites. But
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Question For the last two weeks, we’ve had ants on again/off again in our house. I spray the areas where I see them and they’re gone for a couple of days, but then they pop up in a new place and I spray again, and so on. How can I stop this cycle? N.N., Georgetown,
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