Carpenter ants are most active just after dark and just before sunrise. If you are unsure where the carpenter ants are coming from, do a search. Go outside a half an hour after sunset. [...]

The main colony, with the Queen, is in a tree outside. Her eggs need the high humidity that a tree provides. Carpenter ants can trail into your home directly from nests outside. Otherwise, they [...]

When To Treat Outside Once the weather warms up to around 65 degrees, ants become active outdoors. From that point, the ants inside are linked to outside. In Cleveland, Ohio, this occurs in Mid-April. [...]

Store Bought Bait You now know that store bought sprays are not good for controlling ants inside your home. But what about ant traps? They won’t counteract our products. And they can draw the [...]

Ants live under rocks. Your driveway and patio are like big rocks to them. Once they colonize these areas, it is a simple expansion into your basement. They can be in the walls, under [...]

Inside, ant nests are usually: Underneath concrete slab floors. Underneath showers and bathtubs (bath trap) In foundation walls and basement floors. Especially on the wall shared with the driveway. Look around basement windows. Near [...]

We perform localized crack and crevice treatments indoors for ants. This is to inject a product into their entry points. Applying bug killer in exposed areas of the living space is saved as a [...]

Have Ants Present For Our Inspection Our strategy for indoor ant treatments is simple. Track ants back to where they are entering the living space. Apply control products to those areas. Think of where [...]

Expectations for control is within 5 days. Professional ant control products have a transfer effect. It’s basically contagious. In that way, ant populations are reduced further than just killing the ants that directly come [...]

Pesticides are generally considered safe when applied according to label directions. Additionally, the treatment area should be vacant from children, pets and the elderly until sprays have dried. Usually an hour is sufficient. The [...]