So, you’ve spotted clear signs of wood damage in your home and are concerned you may have a termite infestation. That may not be the case: you may, instead, have a carpenter ant problem.
Carpenter Ant Infestation Signs
There are a variety of signs that your home is infested with carpenter ants. They include:
- Extreme concentration of ants in your home
- Flying ants emerging from your walls in the spring
- Wood shavings underneath wooden items
- Scurrying and rustling noises inside woodwork and walls
Sometimes, simply seeing carpenter ants in and around your home is not enough to indicate a true infestation. After all, carpenter ants can travel several miles away from their nest.
Before you make a call on carpenter ant infestation, you or a professional need to inspect the damage wood areas.
Inspecting Damage Caused by Carpenter Ants
Carpenter ants differ from termites in that they don’t eat wood: they simply burrow in it to make their nests. As a result, wood damage between the two insect types is very different.
Carpenter ant wood damage is characterized by the following traits:
- Clean and well polished wood
- Lack of mud, soil and droppings
- Holes in tunnels that lead to surface
- Large piles of uneaten wood at the surface of tunnel
Dealing with serious carpenter ant infestation is a job much too big for the average home owner. That’s why you need to contact us as soon as possible. We’ll help diagnose the problem, find a solution, and get those troublesome ants out of your home as soon as possible.
