Article December 10, 2018 Issue

Can ants destroy a home?

Russell Whittaker

Big black carpenter ants were on the walls in one corner of our dining room. Upon examination of the scene, a contractor friend told us he’d rather have termites than carpenter ants. This was scary, as we had come to value his opinion on construction matters.

I quickly called an exterminator, who arrived at our house and sprayed the corner of the attic where he had found the ants’ nest. For a while after that we saw fewer ants. But quite a few were left, so we called for a second spraying, which was done. As before, the number of ants immediately decreased, but soon it was increasing again. I called a third time, and the exterminator kindly told us that because of how entrenched the ants were in our attic, he could not get rid of them permanently.

Wow! That was frightening to hear. What would become of our home?

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