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How To Kill Carpenter Ants?
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Pestend Pest Control Toronto specializes in complete ant extermination services in Toronto and the greater Toronto area. Our ant exterminators use proven and time tested procedures to completely exterminate all ants in your home or commercial property.
All our ant control services are backed by an industry leading 100% Satisfaction Money-Back Guarantee, which ensures that we will solve your ant infestation problem or we will refund your money.
Top 5 Reasons To Choose Us For Ant Control Toronto!
- Our ant control procedures are professional and work every time. They are designed to completely exterminate all ants from your residential or commercial property.
- Each ant species requires an unique treatment. Carpenter ants are the most common in Toronto for example and we have developed a solution which completely exterminates all carpenter ants from your property.
- Our carpenter ant services are one of the lowest priced in the industry. It will cost you less to hire a professional carpenter ant exterminator from Pestend then to try to eliminate the ant problem yourself.
- All our ant control and extermination services are backed by a 100% Money Back Guarantee. If we are not able to completely exterminate all carpenter ants from your property we will re-treat the area again. If you are not happy with our services we will refund all your money.
- Pestend is a local Canadian company serving the Greater Toronto Area. Our services are convenient and our ant extermination experts are flexible to meet your busy schedule.
How To Kill Carpenter Ants?
The following guide is a detailed guide on exterminating ants from your house or commercial property.
Identify all the spots where you see the ants. Finding all the areas is crucial since if you miss an area the ants will re-multiply and infest your home again. This is the benefit of hiring a professional ant exterminator. They know where to look and are able to find all the ant homes.
Identify the type of ants that you have. You can use our ant encyclopedia to find out what type of ant you have.
Purchase professional ant spray for the specific type of ants you have. Spray the spray vigorously in the areas where you see ants living.
If after spraying all the ant spots that you found, the ant problem persists, you should contact a Pestend ant control technician to analyze your property and give you a low ant extermination quote.
Photo Gallery
Below are photos of some of the ant infestations we have encountered over the years. If left untreated ants can multiply very quickly and be harder to exterminate, so the faster you act the lower the ant control price will be.
Areas We Service
- – Ajax
- – Aurora
- – Barrie
- – Bolton
- – Bradford
- – Brampton
- – Burlington
- – Caledon
- – Cambridge
- – Etobicoke
- – Georgetown
- – Guelph
- – Halton Hills
- – Hamilton
- – Markham
- – Milton
- – Mississauga
- – Newmarket
- – North York
- – Oakville
- – Oshawa
- – Richmond Hill
- – Scarborough
- – Stouffville
- – Thornhill
- – Toronto
- – Vaughan
- – Woodbridge
Our professional ant control services are available across Southern Ontario, including ant Control Toronto, ant Control Mississauga, Brampton, ant Control Richmond Hill, ant Control Newmarket, ant Control Oakville, Scarborough, Oakville, Vaughan, Peterborough, as well as a multitude of other towns and cities in Southern Ontario. Click on your city in the map above to request a free ant control quote and to schedule an ant exterminator to come and solve your ant problems today.
Interesting Facts About Carpenter Ants
Physical Characteristics
Carpenter Ants
One of our largest and most common ants, Carpenter Ants feed on a great number of pests and are considered helpful insects in their natural habitat. Carpenter ants get their name from their habit of excavating galleries inside wood and keeping these galleries meticulously clean and finely finished. These excavated galleries expose damp or damaged wood to natural decomposers like fungi and other insects that break it down quickly. However, their behaviour is considered a problem when nesting in lumber used for homes or buildings, establishing colonies in moist wood, insulation, hollow doors and voids inside walls.
Colonies
Their colonies are made up of different ant castes (for example, larvae and pupa, worker ants, reproductive adults and a queen). Winged reproductive adult carpenter ants (alates) swarm away from a developed colony later in the spring or in early summer. Noticing a swarm of carpenter ants performing mating flights may be an early warning sign of a problem. Outdoors, carpenter ants prefer to nest in rotting wood. Moist wood found in posts, tree stumps and landscaping ties, as well as dead tree limbs or the heartwood of a tree are perfect nesting spots. A nest found in structural wood is usually a satellite nest of an outdoor colony located nearby.
Indoor Preferences
Indoors, carpenter ants prefer to establish nests in places where slight humidity or dampness has softened wood. This can include wood paneled doors, wooden cabinets around dishwashers, moist areas behind fireplaces, baseboards and windows, as well as inside various types of insulation such as polystyrene and fiberglass which materials are untreated against the impact of an insect attack. The colony size is usually proportionate to the wood space where the nest is located. Carpenter ants rarely destroy the wood structure, although establishing several satellite nests in the wood can cause serious damage.
Reproduction Cycle
The queen of a colony will lay between twenty to thirty eggs and feed the larvae until pupation. These pupae emerge into worker ants that look after the queen and create a larger colony for fresh eggs when this cycle occurs again in the middle of the summer. All carpenter ants start out as minor workers with mandible and head sizes proportionate to the body. It is their responsibility to care for the queen as well as the eggs, larvae and pupae. To understand Toronto ant control you must realize, as the ant colony matures, some of the pupae emerge into major workers. With larger heads and mandibles, these ants are responsible for defending the colony. The colony continues to mature for about three to six years during which 3,000 or more calendar ants can exist and, in some cases, produce as many as 400 adult ants or alates that may swarm from the nest to disperse to other colonies during the spring and fall of each year. Usually during the night, minor and major carpenter ants both travel a distance of at least 100 meters from the nest searching for food, while only about ten percent of other colony workers will forage for food at once. The ant’s life-cycle is about 66 days.
Food Preferences
These ants search for food far away from their nests and can invade a building structure anytime of the year. In the winter months, a dormancy period known as diapause takes place over several weeks in colonies that are located in colder areas (i.e. against the outer wall of a building). Noticing carpenter ant activity inside a building in the winter will indicate the existence of a nest usually near an inside wall or other warm location. To avoid freezing while overwintering, these insects concentrate a substance in the blood similar to the commercial antifreeze, ethylene glycol.
Carpenter ants are not wood eaters, but chew through wood, leaving behind insect frass similar to the look of sawdust. This behaviour is also seen in other species like the Acrobat, Thief and the Little Black ant which all nest in rotting wood and produce insect frass. The diet of the carpenter ant consists of various plants and insects and sometimes human food. In order to keep the nest clean, carpenter ants eject waste from insects and other material through the nest opening which can bring attention to the nesting site itself.
Fun facts from your ant exterminator Toronto
Here Pestend, we are dedicated to making sure you get the right pest control at an affordable price. As your favoured ant exterminator Toronto professional, we make it our business to provide professional, reliable and prompt relief to our Toronto clients when they are being bothered by infestations.
We understand that even ants can become a nuisance, and to that end we offer an outstanding guarantee on our work and a free estimate we feel separates us from the competition. Understanding the pest you’re up against is important when it comes to ants, so here are a few interesting and fun facts you can ponder while we look after getting rid of these pests.
Did you know:
- One of the biggest varieties of ants lives in Africa and can grow up to one and one half inches long?
- If we were as strong as ants, we could lift almost 10,000 pounds?
- There are almost 9,000 species of ants in the world?
- Still, there’s nothing interesting or fun about an ant infestation. Part of our ant exterminator Toronto services includes an urgent response phone number you can call from Toronto or other areas in the GTA when you’ve got a pest control issue that just won’t wait.
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