Carpenter ants excavate tunnels in wet and rotting wood to build colonies and nests. They dig out expansive and extensive galleries and tunnels for the queen to store her eggs and for the ant workers to store food for the queen. As carpenter ants drill out a piece of wood they leave behind a combination of wood shavings that look like powder, pieces of ants like legs and sections of the carapace, along with droppings from the carpenter ants. The dropping can vary in colour but are incredibly tiny and hard to see without a powerful magnifying glass.
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!
If you find this material in your home near oblong holes in your walls then it is more than clear that you have a serious carpenter ant problem in your home. They work quickly and can make new colonies very rapidly so it is important that if you find signs of carpenter ants in your home in the form of carpenter ant Frass (the name given to the pile of wood shavings, ant parts and fecal matter that is produced by the building of ant colonies in your home). If you are seeing this in your home you need to take action.
Remove all the wood from your property, old stumps rotting sheds and piles of wet firewood. Get rid of everything. Then you will need to go into your home and spray the walls and base boards with a solution of boric acid, water and silica particles. This will dry on the walls and create a sharp jagged landscape that will kill off any ant that comes near it by ripping open their carapace. You can also use cedar oil to suffocate them at the openings of their colonies.
Either way you will likely need to call a professional so use The Exterminators Inc, we know how to get rid of your ant infestation today.