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Getting rid of carpenter ants on your property requires that
you do an inspection outside, treat the outside of your home with a residual
barrier insecticide like Knox Out, and clear brush away from the home. Kill any
mature nest you may find (usually in rotting wood) by opening the nest and
drenching it with boiling water or with a mixture of water and ant killer. Note
that structural improvements like replacing aging and rotted siding and wood
porches may be necessary to prevent establishment of indoor carpenter ant
colonies.
Getting rid of carpenter ants from your home is simple enough if you can find out where the Carpenter Ants are coming from. If the colony is large enough, nesting carpenter ants will actually make a crinkling or crunching noise. If detecting carpenter ant nest by sound is not possible, you may want to try setting up a sugar or honry bait, and follow them back to their nest during the night. This, of course, requires that you can stay up well past your bed time, but once you find the nest it is just a matter of making one of two choices:
The first choice to get rid of carpenter ants in your home is to spray aerosol pesticides into the entrance of the nest and place sweet baits (boric acid or Terro) near the nest. This can be considered a first step, if you think the colony is not very large. Usually twenty or so winged ants found in the house during the spring is indicative of an established, but small, colony. Sweet baits and a simple aerosol spray may be able to take care of the problem, though ants in the nest have been known to survive for several months without feeding, and aerosol sprays may not make it far enough into the nest to guarantee complete ant extermination.
The second choice to get rid of carpenter ants in your home is to drill holes in the wall to penetrate the nest, and then dust and spray with ant killer. If you notice more than 20 winged ants in your home during the spring, then it is possible that you have a larger colony established somewhere in your home, and if you want to get rid of carpenter ants the best way to do this is to find their nest, drill holes into the nest, and dust with boric acid or Knox Out (Diazinon), and spray with an aerosol insecticide. This is a big step for a lot of people because they do not want to do any damage to their home, and if they are renting, this may not even be an option.
If you ca not get rid of carpenter ants or you are not certain you are qualified to do so, you may want to call a professional pest control agency (Curtis Exterminator 760-910-0216). If you are a homeowner, you should schedule an initial inspection to make sure they can detect the location of the nest, a second to treat the nest, and a third inspection within a month or during the following spring to ensure they have gotten rid of carpenter ants for good. If you are a renter, you should notify your landlord of the problem; explaining the danger to the structure of you home may influence more immediate action, if you know what I mean.
A good pest control professional will do a very thorough examination of your home. Having all family members present may help the agent pinpoint the location of the next more easily, so be ready for questions about sightings and recent ant activity. Once the nest is located, the pest control agent will drill holes, and treat the surrounding wood, moving outward from the nests location, eventually finishing the job with a residual insecticide spray of the perimeter of your home. With the number of carpenter ant infestations and the difficulty of getting rid of carpenter ants, it is relatively common to call in a professional to take care of your ant problem
