Wet conditions usually bring ants into your home, this can be a real pester opening up your cabinets to find these tiny dark menaces in your home. You are probably asking yourself but how, why, well I will explain. When the conditions get wet after Spring Rain showers you might start to see carpenter ants coming through your watered screen doors and marching into your home. They can be a real problem mostly a nuisance and can sometimes cause structural damage to already damaged wood.
What are Carpenter Ants?
Carpenter ants are the most common Ant found in New England, and the ants that you will mostly likely find lingering in your home. They nest in wood that has been wet, which makes sense why after spring rain they would house themselves in your home. Be aware, they also wander for desserts. Making sure that you are taking care of any sweets, or desserts in air tight containers is really important. Although they may seem more of an annoyance than anything else, it is important to note that if not taken care of they can and will damage the wood in the home. Rest assured there are ways to keep your ant invasion under control, by taking preventative measures.
Preventative Measures for Carpenter Ant Invasion
- First, what would be involved is removing any wood that may be damaged or has moisture from a recent rain fall. Carpenter Ants are naturally attracted to moisture, so getting it out of your home area will prevent ants from inviting themselves into your home, and start nesting.
- Make sure you check any areas where you may find leaky water that may be puddled near your home, and in basements as this can be harboring ants. Gutters as well where wet leaves come together and could do the same.
- Check walls and moisture, within them as ants may be hiding in between.
- Hide your sweets, place them in your refrigerator, or air tight containers where they are not accessible to these uninvited guests
- Check the soil near the home after rain, make sure there aren’t any nests nearby. If you would like to identify nests just put out watered honey and see the route the ants take from where you put the honey to their nest and eliminate it.
If you already have Carpenter Ants in your home and it has gotten out of control and you rather not deal with it.
Call A&M Pest control to help you eliminate these Pesters in your house. A&M will inspect your home and get rid of any problem areas, there is no reason why you would have to do this alone.
Contact us Now at: (508) 237-9536, or visit us online and fill out a contact form so one of our representatives gets back to you on a free estimate at https://www.aandmpest.com/
