Carpenter ants, I hate carpenter ants. And an infestation of them is rarely small. They hide well and stay out of view until they are large enough to be overwhelming. They are a terrifying infestation, and they bite. They cause allergic reactions in some people and make asthma worse. So if you have them in your home you need to act fast and get rid of them. 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!
If the infestation is truly large then you will want to think about the damage they may have caused to your home, its structural integrity, and the safety of living in it. Likely hood is you will have to perform a lot of repairs so its good to take precautions and inspect the property regularly for carpenter ant infestations.
Carpenter ants drill holes in drywall and wood and make nests in these places as well as in your insulation, assuming it isn’t cellulose insulation which is coated in boric acid to kill insects like carpenter ants. You can find signs of them by these oblong holes. Look for little piles of dust beneath them. These piles are actually wood shavings so fine they look like dust and feces from the ants as well as ant parts like legs and chunks of thorax. Another example of carpenter ants on your property is the presence of dead winged ants and separated ant wings, this means ants have bred on your property and are making more colonies. If you find these then you have an infestation and need to act quickly to get rid of them. You can try doing it yourself. Get some boric acid and a spray bottle, dilute with water and spray it everywhere in your home, on walls on furniture and on baseboards. You can also use silica in water to kill them. These things dry and crystallize into jagged forms that tear apart the ants carapace and kills it. You can also take a syringe filled with cedar oil and insert it directly into the holes. The scent will travel quite far and suffocate many of the ants with its powerful fumes.
These are all effective ways of killing ants but if you get overwhelmed there is help.
If this isn’t enough you can call an exterminator like Ant Control, our professionals are highly trained and know how to get the ants where they stand. They will perform a baseboard spray with a commercial grade insecticide that mimics the effects of boric acid but on a much grander level. No ant will survive the crystalline matrix of destruction that is insecticide spray.
