Black Carpenter Ants

rick35 · 07-27-2009, 09:10 PM

We had a bad bout of carpenter ants this year. I first noticed a pile of sawdust around the back side of the camp where it doesn't get any sun. When I peeled back the siding I found that they had already tunneled into the 2x4's. I didn't have anything to hit them other than wasp spay but it killed them on contact. They poured out of the opening into a pool of black. Before I left to come home I fired off an ant bomb which did a pretty good job as we found a lot of dead ants when we returned the following weekend. I've since gone out a few times and sprayed around the foundation and so far we haven't seen any more ants.

07-27-2009, 09:10 PM	#17
rick35 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Bear Island/Merrimack Posts: 807 Thanks: 58 Thanked 203 Times in 130 Posts	We had a bad bout of carpenter ants this year. I first noticed a pile of sawdust around the back side of the camp where it doesn't get any sun. When I peeled back the siding I found that they had already tunneled into the 2x4's. I didn't have anything to hit them other than wasp spay but it killed them on contact. They poured out of the opening into a pool of black. Before I left to come home I fired off an ant bomb which did a pretty good job as we found a lot of dead ants when we returned the following weekend. I've since gone out a few times and sprayed around the foundation and so far we haven't seen any more ants.