At Halt Pest Control, we’re always happy to help you solve your pest control problems. But we also believe that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, to coin a phrase. The tips below may help you in heading off a lot of pest control problems before they become a serious infestation or issue.

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Summer Tips - Controlling Carpenter Ants

Carpenter Ant Prevention

First and foremost, taking the right steps to prevent a carpenter ant infestation should be taken. Those steps include:

• keeping vegetation away from the immediate vicinity of buildings,
• preventing wood-soil contact,
• ventilating to prevent moisture build-up,
• stacking wood off the ground and away from buildings,
• repairing leaks in roofs and gutters, and
• pre-treating before and during construction of new buildings.

If you’ve identified that you have a carpenter ant infestation, the information below will help in managing and controlling the problem.

Managing Carpenter Ants

The truth is that there is no single treatment that is "best" for all carpenter ant infestations. Determining the best treatment begins with correctly identifying carpenter ant damage and answering a few basic questions:

• Where are the ants actually living?
• Where are they feeding (and upon what)?
• If the carpenter ants are actually living in the building, are there any structural problems that are contributing to the carpenter ant problem (moisture problems, tree limbs touching or overhanging the house, etc.).
• How accessible is the nest area for direct treatment?

Ideally, working with a trained, QualityPro certified, pest management professional is the best course of action.

The goal of any carpenter ant treatment is to deliver a precise dose of just the right insecticide into just the right place so that the ants will encounter the materials and transport it throughout the colony in the house.

The reality, however, is that even for professionals, finding the actual source of a carpenter ant infestation is a challenge, and treatment requires some guesswork, but with the proper training and experience we can control most infestations.

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