This damage is costly to repair ... piles and stack firewood far away from your house. Inside your home, make the space inhospitable for carpenter ants to survive. Repair any plumbing or roof ...

But when it comes to carpenter ants, these industrious little organisms can do some serious damage. Carpenter ants encompass ...

Carpenter ants, which include more than a thousand species in the genus Camponotus, nest in wood and can be destructive to buildings. (Much like termites, which cause far more severe damage.) ...