Carpenter Ants
How to Get Rid of Carpenter Ants
from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can EditThis will tell you many ways to remove one of this earths biggest pests. Carpenter Ants are very nasty ants. There even nastier when they destroy the inside of your home, short circuit your dishwasher, make water leaks, and get into everything in your kitchen.
Steps
- Clean up your house to make it unfriendly to carpenter ants. do this by cleaning floors up really good, fix any leaky faucets that fuel rotting wood, and remove any clutter that creates shelter for them.
- Use advance carpenter ant bait. This has been a proven ant bait that kills the nest and lasts all year long.
- The best solution is to find the colony and destroy it by using a residue, crack, or crevice aerosol sprayed directly into the nest or use a dust such as Deltadust with a duster.
Tips
- Get a stethoscope and listen to the wall you think the nest is in. You will hear a scrabbling sound that sound like a rustling or tapping sound.
- Simply spraying the outside of your house won't get rid of them.
Warnings
- Keep poisons away from children and pets!
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