This just in from our Austin Pest control team…

“What ant would try to weather an Austin winter without a little food storage? You would have to be a crazy ant!”
Quoted from Austin we have an Ant Problem – Austin Pest Controller

Sure laugh it up over in Austin where you don’t have a rasberry crazy ant problem!

But I am sure you won’t be laughing for long.  The rasberry crazy ant is about 90 miles from San Antonio and heading your direction Austin, TX.  And I know it’s about that scary Halloween time right now, but this isn’t a Trick or Treatment. Like one wicked stage blogger wrote…. “A BAD HORROR FILM”

“It does almost sound like a bad horror film. …they came off a ship…wander randomly… shorting out electrical boxes and screwing up computers!!! …They’ve been doing their thing in that area (Houston) since 2002 and folks are working on finding a way to get rid of them, but it isn’t easy!”

Crazy ants require that homes and buildings keep up a constant barrier (i.e. Bulwark).  Crazy Rasberry Ants attack by the billions. If your neighbor has them then good luck trying to protect yourself with a do-it-yourself ant control bait.  This pest is giving many professional exterminators a run for their money.  In fact, the resident pest control experts on rasberry ants are picking up accounts left and right from companies that can’t get rid of rasberry ants.

So how do you get rid of rasberry ants?  How do you get rid of crazy ants?  How do you get rid of carpeter ants?  How do you get rid of any and all ants?

The one simple solution to get rid of all your ants… Ant Control.

Just pick up the phone can call…281-668-4930 … Its that simple.

And who better to fight an army of ants then a retired military exterminator? You want them… Bulwark has em.

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Opened up a switch plate on a kitchen light switch…found quite a bit of sawdust inside. Worried about carpenter ants. Have not seen any ants in my kitchen, just little tiny mite-like things. -Jeff E.

Jeff it sounds like you may have two separate problems all together.  If you squish the mites and they leave a red mark then they could be red spider mites.  If you clean out the saw dust tonight and it returns tomorrow then you have something actively damaging your wood.  Carpenter ants will leave sawdust. Carpenter Bees leave sawdust as well.  Termites don’t leave sawdust as they actually consume the wood.  You will want to check around the outside of your home for the carpenter ants.  Its possible that the saw dust could be from a previous infestation if this is the first time you have seen it.

But with that said, the best thing to do to get rid of an existing infestation is a whole house clean out.  And you should maintain a barrier to keep the bugs from coming back.  Ant trails can last up to a year, so just because they are not there now doesn’t mean they won’t return. Maintain a protective barrier is key to keeping your home pest free.