One of the common problems that most households in the United States face is the infestation of the carpenter ants. Typically, when you start noticing large and black ants moving randomly on or around your home, it could meant that your home might be infested by carpenter ants.

There are many species and types of ants and the most common is the black carpenter ants. It is about one-half inch or more in length and shiny black in color whereas other types of carpenter ants are as small as one-quarter inch and are reddish brown or two-toned. However, despite all the different species, there is one consistent characteristic among all carpenter ants and that is the smoothly rounded outline of the thorax when viewed from the side.

The diet of carpenter ants is very flexible as they can eat many different types of food such as  honeydew from aphids, sweets, meat, fats as well as living and dead insects. Although they construct their nests insides wood such as stumps, logs, posts, landscaping timbers, hollow trees and the lumber used in homes and other structures, carpenter ants  don’t eat wood.

If you find carpenter ants indoors during the winter season, they usually come from nests somewhere within the house whereas ants found indoors during spring or summer could be invaders wandering in from outdoors or they may be foragers from a nest in the wall or ceiling.

If you want to get rid of carpenter ants, it is best that you engage the services of professional pest control company. The reasons is because tracing and location the nest of carpenter ants is quite difficult and unless you can locate all the nest, busting one nest won’t help.

It is worth to stress that if you have carpenter ant infestation, do fix it as soon as possible as any further delay might cause more damages to your home.