Set out baits labeled for carpenter ants. Baits can be effective because ants share food with each other, says Benson. Place ...

Carpenter ants often get the blame when a tree dies and thousands of the little scurriers are found running in and out the crime scene. The truth is they didn’t do it. The ants were just taking ...

Q A large branch broke off our maple tree last fall. There was no wind or any cause that we could tell, except that there were carpenter ants all over it. Would the ants have gotten into the whole ...

Q: The arborvitae in the photo is on the south corner of my house and was planted about four years ago. In the winter it was wrapped in burlap, and weathered the previous years fine, but this year it ...

Carpenter ants don’t kill trees. I know it’s hard to believe, but true. The truth is that your tree already was in decline before the ants got to it. The ants take advantage of the soft rotting wood ...

I was out in the woods enjoying these, potentially, last days of winter and noticed one of our beautiful giant trees getting ripped apart by a pileated woodpecker. The woodpeckers have been going at ...

EAST GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) - A massive branch from an oak tree fell Sunday afternoon because of hungry carpenter ants. The branch fell Sunday afternoon on Argentina Drive, west of Breton. No one was ...

I have been seeing some large and small black ants in my kitchen over the last few days and have also noticed them crawling up the trunk of one of my old maple trees. There appears to be sawdust at ...

Mention carpenter ants, and Declan McCabe, chair of the biology department at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, thinks about the time he got a lungful of formic acid. He had taken a class into the ...

In the forest, carpenter ants have a job to do, recycling woody debris, such as dead trees and fallen logs. But these large ants become nuisances when they forage or nest inside our homes. “Carpenter ...