How to Find Carpenter Ants in Your Home

How to Find the Carpenter Ant Nest in Your Home

It’s a well known fact that carpenter ants nest in walls. The question becomes how do you a carpenter ant nest in the walls when there’s no physical evidence other than foraging worker carpenter ants? The first thing to do is listen. When carpenter ants nest in the walls of a home sometimes they’ll make a distinctive crackling noise. If you hear this, you’ve found the colony.

It’s also possible to find a carpenter ant colony simply by following the ants as they forage through your home. Once you see the ant disappear under a baseboard or into any other crack or crevice there’s a high probability the nest may be located in this area. When found it can then be treated accordingly.

The last way to find carpenter ants that nest in walls is the way most professionals go about finding and eliminating a colony: they use an insecticide called a pyrethrin while completing a thorough inspection. This material agitates the ants and causes them to exist the area where they’re nesting. It’s very effective and our technicians have found numerous ant colonies this way.

We Treat All Kinds of Ants

At Envirocare Pest Control our technicians have the ability to solve all different types of ant problems including those for:

• Carpenter ants
• Big black ants
• Pavement ants
• Odorous house ants
• Little black ants

Pet Friendly Pest Control

We understand that homeowners are concerned with the types of products exterminators use. That’s why we utilize the least toxic methods of pest control as our first option when presented with a pest problem. All of our treatments are pet friendly, and if we notice a sensitive situation we can make suggestions on alternative methods of treatment.

Quarterly Ant Control Services

In order to keep your home pest free we offer our ongoing quarterly maintenance program. Our quarterly service includes:

• Coverage for more than 15 different types of pests including carpenter ants
• Free re-service between visits
• Convenient scheduling times with 1 hour appointment windows
• Discounts on other services we provide

If you suspect that you have carpenter ants call Envirocare Pest Control at 888-879-6481. We can help.