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How to kill carpenter ants? Pest Products Online supplies you the information and recommendations necessary to get rid of carpenter ants. Carpenter ants enter structures though gaps or cracks while foraging for food. However, the appearance of large numbers of winged adults inside a structure indicates that the nest(s) exists indoors. Despite what you might think, they don't eat wood, but they eat just about anything you would eat. The wood is damaged by tunneling into your home. Once in a building, they search out a water source, food and use wood for their nest.
 
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Carpenter Ants
Camponotus species

Color: from red to black
Legs: 6
Shape: segmented; oval
Size 5/8”
Antennae: yes
Flight: no

Habitat

These ants can establish nests inside and outside a structure. Often, a parent colony is established outside in a tree stump, landscape timber, or a woodpile. Satellite colonies are established in your home behind a kitchen or bathroom wall where wood has been dampened from moisture. You can usually find trails of them at night as they search for food.  Let us show you how to kill carpenter ants.

Health Risks

Carpenter ants do not sting and usually don't bite humans. However, their jaws are large enough to inflict a painful bite.

Property Damage

These ants can cause property damage to a structure. They usually invade wet, decayed wood but they can tunnel through dry undamaged wood as well. As you can see, it is important to get rid of carpenter ants to avoid property damage.

Prevention

Eliminate sources of moisture, seal cracks around your foundation, and keep wood materials away from your home. Cutting back bushes and branches will also eliminate sources of entry to your home.

Eradication

This can be difficult and requires an intergrated approach which involves moisture elimination, removing overhanging tree limbs, stumps, and firewood, and sealing up entry cracks. It is important to locate the nest and satellite nest. Areas where water leaks occur should be inspected. Treat nests with a gel bait labeled for carpenter ants Maxforce Carpenter ant Gel Bait or use a labeled dust. Treat inside wall voids with a foam or dust. Treat the ant trails followed by workers when they forage with carpenter ant bait granules.

Carpenter Ant control products

Carpenter Ant Kit A0116 for use inside and outside.

CB Foam A0128 for use in the nest area wall voids

Drione Dust A0123 for use in nest area wall voids

Advance Carpenter Ant Bait A0116 use on ant trails

Maxforce Carpenter ant Gel Bait A0115

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