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What To Do With A Tree Infested With Ants

4/17/2020

 
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If you have a tree infested with ants, then you have to take the right steps to correct the issue. Ants typically travel up and down the trunk of a tree and go into the cavity, where they make their home.

Due to the nesting and comfort ants experience when living inside a tree, if this isn’t taken care of as soon as possible, the number of ants in the tree will continue to increase.

Carpenter Ants
The black, huge ants that mainly hang out inside of the tree are called carpenter ants. These ants attract attention, regardless if they are crawling on the floor in your home, crawling all over your flowers, or going out and inside a tree trunk.

Carpenter ants love stumps and logs. But they also enjoy nesting in trees, particularly mature ones that have plenty of wood that is rotten and dead. Carpenter ants use trees in which the wood is decayed since a huge amount of moisture is in those trees.

The Importance of Getting Rid of Ants in Trees

It is really important to make sure that ants are kept away from other structures, your home for instance, where they can be troublesome. It is essential, however, to avoid plugging or closing tree cavities to treat wounds. Plugging or closing won’t do a thing to stop ants from nesting or to halt decay.

Ways to Kill off Ants in Your Tree
Spraying ant powder all around the tree trunk. It is the simplest way to handle an ant-infested tree. The powder not only kills the ants, but other ants as well. Ants eat their dead. By doing so, they eat the poison too.

Ants usually live over the entrance hole. If you can reach the entrance hole, activate a can of bug defogger into the opening. If they are living over the hole, they will come running out by the hundreds.

If you find that your ant infestation causes your tree to die and you want to evaluate if your tree is worth saving, contact us at York Tree Services. ​


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