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Carpenter Ant Control

We specialize in carpenter ant control. We have a whole series of info pages on carpenter identification, treatment, and prevention.  If you need more or different info than you find here - check out the links to the left.

Every customer has a unique discomfort level with carpenter ants.  For some customers, carpenter ant control is all about not seeing any more live ants crawling all over the inside of their home.

But just because you don't see them - doesn't mean they aren't there - inside your walls, in your attic, or inside your sub area.  The queen lives decades and the individual ant workers for many years.

As little as 3% of the ants in a carpenter ant satellite nest will forage - that is, walk around where they can be seen, going to and from an exterior food source (they do not eat wood-they nest in it).  They can be seen, but only if you are looking in the right place at the right time.

Carpenter ants can react to a treatment and you will often not see any activity afterward - because your home was treated.  This does not mean they are all dead or gone. It may take several reapplication's over a period of months to achieve full carpenter ant control for your home.

Carpenter ant control almost always involves follow-up treatments. Why?

Not only can it take several follow-up treatments over a period of months to kill off all the ants in your home, but it is important to understand that the nest in your home is only a small part of a closely connected nest system.

Main nest sites are rarely ever inside homes. Main nest sites occur in trees, stumps, and other areas that never dry out and never freeze.

All the nests in a colony and all foraging sites are connected via 'scent' trails - that puts your home on their map - so follow-up treatments keep your home protected from re-infestation.

Most of our customers on a regular periodic service will not see carpenter ants after the first 30 days - this does not mean the main nest site is gone, the scent trails that lead to their house are gone, or that their home is not targeted for re-infestation - it just means that the treatment we are providing around the outside of their home is maintaining carpenter ant control.

Carpenter ant bringing an insect (food) back to the nest site.