Carpenter ants. Why god why. Why did you send us such a pest that is small enough to hide in plain sight and can bring down an office building if given a few years? Carpenter ants are a serious threat to your home and even your health. They can cause allergic reactions with their formic acid and their bites.It is best to contact professional carpenter ant exterminator Guelph in the Greater Toronto Area to declare your home ant-free as soon as possible!
These ants, though, rarely start their colony in your home. They prefer to begin their infestation plans in wood on your property, this gives them a foothold on the territory. The ants will build a nest and a mass of tunnels to store food and when they reach maturity they will produce ants with wings. I know right, what the hell is wrong with that god guy? Hey, let’s make flying ants, wouldn’t that be fun? How about rats, well make flying rats too. What should I name them? Bats, that’ll work. And then he went back to playing Parcheesi with the Easter bunny.
Okay, enough catholic humor. These flying ants are actually capable of breeding and the females, once inseminated, will be queens. The males die off after the orgy and the females chew off their wings. They then find a safe crack or void in a wall to hide and lay her eggs and wait for her workers to hatch. Wow, like some kinda supervillain. The eggs hatch into workers and the workers start building the queen her own colony and nest. This process continues with each nest maturation. Fling ants will be produced frequently and spread the infestation throughout your house so pervasively that you may never get them out.
So what is there to do? I’ll tell you what there is to do. Take preventative steps. Measures to keep ants away and at bay. You can do this by doing regular inspections of your home for signs of carpenter ants. This can include tiny oblong holes in walls and furniture that tend to have tiny piles of frass beneath them. Frass is a combination of ant poop, wood chips that seem more like dust and bits of dead ants. It is disgusting, sticky, and when it drys it can make asthma worse and cause allergic reactions in some people. They can also do that with their formic acid bites.
You can also try looking for signs of dead winged ants, that is a very good sign you have a serious infestation on your hands. If you want you can try to deal with it on your own. Throw some acid right back at them with boric acid spray, it drys and crystallizes into a mass of jagged spikes of crystal and shred ant carapaces as they try to walk on it.
