Posted by Billy NY on April 25, 2013 at 08:27:36 from (72.226.79.200):
I was wondering, with all that use wood for heat, making use of dead or damaged trees, these ants are always present, well around here they are, what kinds of problems anyone has ever had with them.
I split a couple of logs awhile back, outside, when it was pretty darned cold, figured that would do em in, but there was handfuls of them, and now I see them in the house. Does anyone know if they will do that, migrate into a home say after it warms up and they were scattered on the ground in the snow piles of bark, wood debris, I saw they will live through that. I don't have any ant infested wood in the house. I know they need moisture in the wood, so I don't see them nesting in dry wood framing. Makes me wonder if I should be handling those kinds of logs further away from the house. Funny, they don't bother me, but I'd like to figure out what would draw em in and or know I don't have the potential for them to nest in the framing of the house, all of which is dry. I am getting rid of any logs with ants or old wood, possibly they are coming from that ?
I've seen where if I split a log open in the basement and there were these kinds of ants in the log, used to happen before I got the log splitter, you could put that piece of wood or log down and they will go right back to it, say overnight, then toss the log back outside, and you've got just about every one. I had this problem last year and they went away, seems it just took awhile for em to die off.
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