JHZR2
Staff member
This year I’ve seen more flying ants all over, than ever before. In all sorts of spots. Weird spots, like on the car. No signs of living ants other than the usual little anthills in sidewalk cracks and in the grass.
These are smaller than carpenter ants. Not sure if there are other wood boring small ants around.
The dust here is pollen. It’s been a pretty bad season.
Not all have wings of course, some look like the photo above, but most do have wings.
These are all over, as in multiple different properties I own, so it’s not like an infestation in one spot.
I’m primarily concerned about ants that might bore into wood. I don’t care about ants that just scavenge dead bugs and live in ant hills in the ground.
Some of these ants I see are at my home property, but we have never had an ant inside of the house as long as we have lived there, and I’ve never seen any signs of wood infesting bugs in my house. So that’s good. Some I’ve recently seen are on my stone garage. The concern I have is if they’re trying to get into the wood roof structure. No signs of that but I don’t want to find out the hard way.
What is the right spray for my buildings to treat against such ants to be proactive? Borate?
These are smaller than carpenter ants. Not sure if there are other wood boring small ants around.
The dust here is pollen. It’s been a pretty bad season.
Not all have wings of course, some look like the photo above, but most do have wings.
These are all over, as in multiple different properties I own, so it’s not like an infestation in one spot.
I’m primarily concerned about ants that might bore into wood. I don’t care about ants that just scavenge dead bugs and live in ant hills in the ground.
Some of these ants I see are at my home property, but we have never had an ant inside of the house as long as we have lived there, and I’ve never seen any signs of wood infesting bugs in my house. So that’s good. Some I’ve recently seen are on my stone garage. The concern I have is if they’re trying to get into the wood roof structure. No signs of that but I don’t want to find out the hard way.
What is the right spray for my buildings to treat against such ants to be proactive? Borate?
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