Carpenter ants are considered a wood destroying insect.  Carpenter ants do not attack and destroy wood as a food source.  Instead of eating the wood they bore it out to use it as a nesting site.  Compared to a number of other ant species carpenter ants tend to be larger in size than most ants.  Carpenter ants like to nest in wall voids, attics, and ceilings inside your home.  In the outdoor environment carpenter ants are inclined to nest in dead or decaying wood.  Railroad ties tend to be a very appealing outdoor location for them to take up residence.

Controlling the Carpenter Ant. It is important, so far as possible to locate and destroy colonies at the source.  Sometimes this is very difficult to achieve indoors because nests can be embedded deep inside wall voids and other hard to get areas of the structure.  In many cases a combined strategy of spraying, dusting and baiting is involved.

Extrol will normally only engage in carpenter ant remedy under the conditions of a service program.  It may take time to locate and destroy multiple colonies on a specific property and many times the problem may extend to adjacent properties.