If you’ve ever seen the damage carpenter ants can do, you understand why it’s so important to control them. My housemate used to see them regularly emerge from the wood slat ceiling of her ...

The researchers from Nara Women’s University and other institutions said a whiff of a pheromone found naturally on the body surface of the Japanese carpenter ant, a native species, causes the ...

and this is how one ant in your home turns into thousands,” says Nicole Carpenter, the President at Black Pest Prevention. Peppermint oil is a simple and effective repellent for ants.