Carpenter ant extermination in Blainville
Would you like to have carpenter ants exterminated in Blainville or a surrounding town? LES EXTERMINATIONS TARGET offers professional extermination services for these insects, which can cause significant damage to your home or business.
Carpenter ants make their homes in damp structural wood, where they dig long tunnels. They do not swallow the wood but instead discard it in small pieces.
Recognizing and understanding carpenter ants
Carpenter ants are black, brownish or dark red. They measure between 6 mm and 1 inch in length. Their bodies are divided into three parts, and their antennae are bent. They have wings during mating.
A carpenter ant colony can build a nest outdoors, in a damp stump or the hollow of a dead tree, or inside homes or commercial properties with damp or rotting wood, such as structural wood, window frames and hollow doors.
A single home may contain a main nest as well as secondary nests, each with its own queen. Each nest can contain around 100 ants and even up to 2,000 after a few years!
At the beginning of winter, carpenter ants try to settle inside homes or other heated buildings to access the food available there. Outdoors, they feed on insects and plants, but they also like the protein-rich and sugary foods eaten by humans.
When you spot a carpenter ant moving around your home, observe its path and call our team to explain the situation. A single ant in winter is a sign that you likely have a colony hidden inside your walls or in your attic.
Carpenter ants: Eliminate them as quickly as possible!
Carpenter ants can build their nests in a home’s damp or damaged wood, which they chew through to create tunnels. The presence of sawdust near walls, windows or doors may indicate that they are indeed active.
When this species of ant remains in place for years, it can destroy the foundation’s support beams and seriously damage the load-bearing structure. That is why it is best not to wait before calling professionals for carpenter ant extermination.
Why hire a professional exterminator?
Seeing carpenter ants inside your home can cause immediate panic. These large ants are not only disgusting, but also dangerous because they destroy the wood that supports your load-bearing structure!
These insects reproduce quickly, and if you wait too long before contacting professionals for carpenter ant extermination, you may end up with a colony that has spread throughout your property…
A few ants found in a room are often a sign that a nest is hidden in your walls, floor, basement or attic. Using over-the-counter pest control products will not solve the problem.
Our carpenter ant extermination methods
To completely eliminate all carpenter ants in your home or business, the queen, which remains permanently in the main nest, must be found and killed. If there are several nests, all the queens must be killed.
Our experienced exterminators will locate the nests. They will then determine the methods and products to use based on the situation, including the location of the nests, the size of the colony and the presence of children and pets in your home. Our extermination treatments are customized on a case-by-case basis to meet our clients’ specific needs. For example, we may spray an insecticide on at-risk surfaces and place baits (poisoned food) on the floors for the ants to carry back to the other ants and the queen.
Pest management in accordance with established standards
Do not attempt to control insects or rodents that have invaded your home or business on your own. Some over-the-counter products can be dangerous to your health if used incorrectly, while also being largely ineffective.
Hire an extermination company that employs certified and experienced professionals. Our technicians will assess the situation and plan the specific methods and products to use to exterminate the insects or rodents in your living or working environment.
Our extermination company is a member of the AQGP (Association québécoise de la gestion parasitaire). Our exterminators follow the methods and protocols established by the Ministère de l’Environnement et de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques.
The products we use to exterminate carpenter ants are much more effective than the insecticides sold in department stores, and they are approved as safe by the MELCC.
Physical measures
The moderate use of approved chemical pest control products is highly effective in eradicating insects, mice and rats that infest homes and businesses. However, to prevent another infestation, you must take targeted measures both indoors and outdoors. These are essential pest control methods.
For example, if you have rotting or infested wood around your home, barn or garage, burn it outdoors or dispose of it. Store your firewood in a dry place and bring it into the house only when you intend to burn it immediately.
Do not bury stumps or other wood debris near your home or cottage. Make sure that your outdoor wooden structures, such as retaining walls, decks and gazebos, are not rotting in places. Reduce the humidity level in your home and replace rotting structural wood, or any other rotting wood, with new or thoroughly dry materials.
Store all your food in airtight containers and do not leave crumbs on countertops or floors, as they could attract ants, mice, spiders, wasps, cockroaches and other insects.
