Spring, the time of renewal. Everyone is happy, the birds are singing, the flowers are blooming, leaves returning to the trees, rodents, wildlife, and pests active and infesting homes. Spring, who doesn’t love it. Well a lot of people don’t like it actually. And while your off having fun in the sun, some people are having to deal with infestations of carpenter ants, newly awakened from their winter hibernation in the pile of wood in your back yard.
It is best to contact professional ant exterminator Kitchener in the Greater Toronto Area to declare your home ant-free as soon as possible!
Now carpenter ants reproduce frequently. Every time a new colony is made it is the result of another colony reaching maturity and producing winged ants. The ants are male and female and they perform a mating dance, when the mating dance is over the males die and the females chew off their wings and seal themselves into a crack in a wall or a void and lay their eggs. This will start an entirely new colony that will increase the ant activity already happening on your property and could even lead to your home being invaded by an infestation of carpenter ants.
So what is there to do about an infestation of carpenter ants? Sell your house, move to Bermuda and start doing something with turquoise? Maybe make tasselled leather jackets? Move back in with your parents and start a Youtube channel? Who knows what you will do when you find out your home is infested with carpenter ants and the only way to get rid of them is by spraying their holes with boric acid in water.
Spraying the holes with cedar oil and the baseboards with boric acid can do a lot to prevent and kill ant infestations. But it often isn’t enough in a situation of a serious, long standing infestation. In those cases you need to call a professional at the Exterminators inc.