Where To Find Carpenter Ants

Discover dropped or shed wings of swarmer ants near window sills baseboards or vents.

Where to find carpenter ants. More Info here. Find large winged ants coming from your ceilings walls floor joists and other hidden cracks and crevices. Ants can make a nuisance of themselves because they can nest both indoors and outdoors and the nest or entry points can be hard to find.

While different types of carpenter ants can be found in almost all areas of the US they are relatively rare in non-forested areas such as deserts and high mountains. Carpenter ants that find their way inside to nest do so inside pieces of structural wood located behind walls above ceilings below flooring or behind wooden trim. But they usually apply these below-mentioned treatments after assessing the situation.

Parent colonies consist of the queen her brood and worker carpenter ants. To defeat your ant invasion the first thing that you should do is find out where and how your ants are coming from. The vent pipes skylights and chimneys are areas ants can thrive building their nest from the wood available.

Outdoors carpenter ants are found in dead trunks of standing trees stumps or logs or under fallen logs and stones. Carpenter ants in trees are looking for moist places in which to build their nests. As a result most carpenter ant nests are found in decaying wood in areas such as windows chimneys sinks doorframes or bath traps and in hollow spaces such as wall voids.

Thats why they find dead or decaying wood to be inviting. To the untrained eye carpenter ants and termites may look alike but they are not the same insect. To find food ants have one that will scout and.

Finding Carpenter Ant Nests Carpenter ants prefer to nest in moist wood or structures already damaged by other insects. If an infestation is allowed to continue these ants will eventually. The worker carpenter ants will excavate sawdust-like debris around or below the exit holes.