Carpenter ants are very active for a large portion of the year. They are very active in the summer, spring and fall especially when the weather gets damp and wood on people’s property gets wet and soggy. That is the type of wood carpenter ants prefer so if you have any wood on your property you should dry it out and store it raised from the ground or just get rid of it and install a gas heater in your home.
It is best to contact professional carpenter ant exterminator Kitchener in the Greater Toronto Area to declare your home ant-free as soon as possible!
Carpenter ants tend to mature in the spring and produce winged ants that will fly around and mate with each other in a strange ant dance. This will result in a lot of dead male ants and a bunch of new pregnant queens. The queens find a place to house themselves, a crack or opening in wood or drywall, and they lay their eggs and seal themselves away.
While carpenter ants are normally inactive during the winter, human intervention has changed that. When we started heating our wooden houses we gave the carpenter ant a new and unimagined opportunity. They could live in the warm wood kept temperate by the indoor heating and remain active throughout the winter. This allows them to continue hunting food of which they are likely to find in most people’s messy kitchens. Its really a win-win for the ants. They get to extend their active time, continue expanding their colonies and get food and water all winter just because humans don’t know how to dry out their bathtub after they take a bath or clean up the crumbs that fall on the ground when you eat your cracker jacks and watch your baseball.
So if you have carpenter ants in your home you should probably call a professional to deal with them, like The Exterminators Inc.