Did your home just become a visiting spot for carpenter ants? You thought it was safe and didn’t bother before, but now you want to get rid of those ants without letting them set up camp. Let me assist and give you some natural pest control for carpenter ants. Hopefully, this will help you do the job with little effort, instead of spending too much time or money in unnecessary products. Carpenter ants can be a major problem in any household. That’s because they eat from and contaminate food. Their waste is also toxic so it should be removed immediately after killing them. Here are some tips for you to get rid of carpenter ants easily, safely and permanently.

Natural Pest Control For Carpenter Ants

The first step in getting rid of carpenter ants is to find the nest.

The first step in getting rid of carpenter ants is to find the nest. The easiest way to locate a carpenter ant colony is by looking for their mud tubes, which are built on walls or above doorways. If you see these tubes, it means that there’s a high possibility that there’s an active nest nearby.

You may also be able to spot some flying ants in your home, which means that the nest is close by (and probably full of extremely hungry workers). If you think you’ve found an active nest, it’s time for step two:

This may require some work, but it will be worth it to get rid of them.

Once you have determined the type of ant you are dealing with, there are several steps that you can take to eradicate them from your home. First, determine where they are entering your home. This may require some work and some detective work, but if you keep an eye out for them, it should be easy enough to spot their trails throughout your house. Once you know where they are entering, sprinkle a line of powder or granules along that area so as not to disturb their trail back outside. If it is hot outside during this time period (summer), keep windows closed and use air conditioning if possible to prevent the ants from coming indoors during the day when it is warmest outside. Next turn off any lights that might attract them into your home at night when it cools down again; this will discourage them from coming inside when it’s dark out and will make tracking their movement easier on subsequent nights as well since they won’t be drawn by bright lights attracting them away from where they should be going (back out into nature).