Carpenter Ant Extermination

Color varies from brown and black, red and black, to light brown depending on the species—black being the most common.

Carpenter ants feed on a wide variety of foods, including other insects. They reside both outdoors and indoors in moist, decaying or hollow wood and can leave "sawdust" behind as a sign of their presence. Instead of eating the wood, as one might assume, they cut through to provide passageways for movement. They prefer to eat anything a human might eat—especially sweets and meat.
They are active year-round, but in the spring, mature colonies produce winged reproductive ants, called swarmers, that fly out to start new colonies. These swarms often occur from satellite colonies within homes, so homeowners may see large flying ants in their homes at night.