Cedar mulch. Nothing more beautiful in a garden with some nice bushes, maybe roses, toss in some tulips and lilys and you got yourself a little garden. Now what do you use for ground cover? Moss? Pebbles? Or maybe mulch. Mulch is made from various kinds of wood and are essentially the chopped up leftovers from construction and furniture manufacturing companies. The wood is ground down into chunks and used by most homes and businesses to cover the dirt in their garden to make the garden appear more pristine. 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!
However danger lies in this here mulch. Wood mulch can attract insects like termites and carpenter ants. Carpenter ants love mulch because it is easy for them to build tunnels through it and nests inside the pieces. They can even use the natural formation of the mulch to create a nest without even having to chew through the wood. How nice for them, isn’t it?
Well be wary, if you have mulch in your garden then you may well get an infestation of carpenter ants. These are some helpful things you can do to prevent them. Don’t use mulch. Use something else, rocks, sand, moss anything else but wood chips because mulch attracts insects far more than rocks do. Rocks can even help protect your garden from assailants.
Its understandable, mulch is very useful. It suppresses weeds it maintains soil moisture helping the plants grow big and strong and it prevents erosion of the soil and keeps the temperature of the soil consistent even when the hot sun is beating down on it. While much of this can be handled by moss or pebbles a lot of people swear by mulch as the only answer to covering a garden.
So how can you prevent ants from forming a colony in your mulch and then moving on to make one in your home? You can make sure to keep your garden away from your house, put it in the middle of the yard or to the side but keep it at least a foot from your home. You will also need to make sure to stir the mulch daily to prevent ants from forming a colony in the mulch. This is an effective way to reduce them. Alternatively you could sprinkle cedar oil on the garden mulch and kill the ants by suffocation from the highly potent oil.
If that is not enough then you can always call the Exterminators inc, our technicians are highly trained and can get rid of your ant problem within 30 days by using baseboard insecticide sprays that crystallise to form a jagged surface that kills all insects.