Carpenter Ants

NJ Lic #22743B
NY Lic #CO848466

P.O. Box 1007
Westwood, NJ 07675
Phone (201) 722-0141
Cell (201) 925-4796
Fax (201) 722-0143
ldowdie@1stchoicepestmgmt.com

Ants / Carpenter Ants

In the most common species, sizes ranges from one-fourth of an inch for a worker ant to three-fourths of an inch for a queen ant.
May range from red to black.
Build nests in deteriorating, moist wood; often the colony will extend its nest into adjacent, sound wood.
Are commonly found in porch pillars and roofs, window sills, telephone poles, live and dead trees, rotting logs and stumps, and wood in contact with soil.
Do not actually eat the wood removed during nest-building activities; rather, deposit the wood in small piles outside the entrance to the colony.