{"id":298,"date":"2010-11-19T11:59:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/?p=298"},"modified":"2010-11-19T11:59:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T16:59:13","slug":"those-new-jersey-carpenter-ants-%e2%80%93-oh-the-memory-lingers-on-part-i-of-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.allisonpest.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/19\/those-new-jersey-carpenter-ants-%e2%80%93-oh-the-memory-lingers-on-part-i-of-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Those New Jersey Carpenter Ants \u2013 Oh The Memory Lingers On! Part I Of II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Allison-Carpenter-Ant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-299\" title=\"Allison-Carpenter Ant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Allison-Carpenter-Ant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"103\" \/><\/a>Creepy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/wood-destroying-insects\/index.php\">carpenter ants<\/a> are well known for their wood-destroying behavior.\u00a0 Unlike termites, they don\u2019t eat wood, but instead use wood to create their \u201cgalleries\u201d which provide passageways for movement from place to place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, about two years ago my neighbor noticed a few large black ants traipsing across their kitchen floor.\u00a0 Being that there were only a few, they were not too worried and they easily killed them with a quick smash of their finger.\u00a0 The days that followed brought about a few more here and there; and still they were not concerned\u2026until one fateful morning when they awoke to a full-blown invasion by what seemed like thousands of carpenter ants!\u00a0 Instead of hiring a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/\">New Jersey pest control specialist<\/a>, they decided to try to kill the beasts themselves with indoor sprays and traps.\u00a0 These remedies kept the creatures away for a short time, but eventually the ants returned and more sprays and traps had to be used.<\/p>\n<p>After fighting the battle of the ants for the entire spring and summer months, in complete desperation my neighbor finally hired a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/\">NJ pest control company<\/a> for help in fighting the pesky creatures.\u00a0 It was discovered that the ant colony was not only outdoors, but they had also taken a liking to a wall in their dining room and the sub flooring which had become damp because of faulty exterior gutter drainage.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allisonpest.com\/wood-destroying-insects\/index.php\">carpenter ant infestation<\/a> was so extensive in the room that a 7\u2019 x 5\u2019 section of the dining room wall and an 8\u2019 x 8\u2019 section of the sub flooring had to be cut out of the room to repair the damage to the wood that was caused by the pests.<\/p>\n<p>Please check back on Monday for the conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creepy carpenter ants are well known for their wood-destroying behavior.\u00a0 Unlike termites, they don\u2019t eat wood, but instead use wood to create their \u201cgalleries\u201d which provide passageways for movement from place to place.\u00a0 For the first time ever, about two years ago my neighbor noticed a few large black ants traipsing across their kitchen floor.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,19,13,14,15,16],"tags":[253,28],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Those New Jersey Carpenter Ants \u2013 Oh The Memory Lingers On! 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