Re: FLORIDA CARPENTER ANT problem on outside of house

The issue is that I never see them on the ground.

Was just cleaning my gutters today. I saw them just sitting ont eh
gutters or facia board doing nothing... like they were sleeping! There
is no water in teh gutters, but I can tell some of my facia board (due
to improper gutter installation) is rotting..

Went to a farm supply store with a few of the carpenter ants in a
ziplock thinking they could prperly identify them, no luck, he just
offered me somethign that killed them on contact and no bait..

Even if I had a bait, where would I place it? In my gutters? There is
supposed to be rain here for the next 3 days starting tonight... is
there a bait that can stick to the side of facia board?

Do I just need to cave in, call my exterminator, remove my gutters,
and replace rotted facia board?


On Mar 31, 12:19 pm, Norminn <norm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
dicko wrote:
Do any of you know-more-than-me people have any suggestions for
killing these outdoor pests? I hate to think of them creating a colony
within the wood of my home... albeit, they arent coming IN my house,
but wait till that one wise ant realizes that the box of ceral in teh
cupboard isnt all that far away and tells all his buddies!

Ive heard of Terro and people seem to have good luck with it, but my
issue is outside and pretty much on the top half of my house.. tried
amdro... and ive literally seen the red ants pick it up, move it a
foot or so away from the mount, and come back to move another... it is
like they got the memo that it is poison.

thanks SO MUCH in advance!
Jazz Mann

My favorite way of killing them is with a bait called Combat Ant
Killing Gel. Dont buy the Roach Killing Gel of the same name.

Its sold at Ace Hardware and it used to be at Home Depot but all I've
seen lately is a shelf space with a tag, but the shelf's always been
empty.

dickm

In my experience with carpenter ants (Florida), they are much more a
symptom than a problem - much more important to find out WHY they are in
a structure than to bait and poison them.- Hide quoted text -

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