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Moisture Ant Infestation (King of the House) Bellingham Home Inspector

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Home Inspector with King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. Home Inspector Lic #207

When sellers or agents hear that there is an ant infestation at a residence, the primary suspect will usually be one of the numerous species referred to as "carpenter ants." In the northwest, another common ant infestation involves "moisture ants."

These opportunistic insects, moisture ants and carpenter ants, do not eat wood but they mine wood to make residences. Carpenter ants are most likely to start tunneling in wet or damaged wood and they might move into sound materials. In the case of moisture ants, the insects are only attracted to soggy or decayed lumber. They will not mine sound lumber, unless it becomes extremely wet or is otherwise becoming compromised.  Recently I prepared a video that I share with my clients on the topic of moisture ant infestations. Click below to see the video.

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Steven L. Smith

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Comments (2)

Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Well done as always Mason, instructive and valuable.  Your voice has changed quickly!  It sounds almost as professional as Pop Pop's...

Sep 30, 2012 07:17 PM
Tom Braatz Waukesha County Real Estate 262-377-1459
Coldwell Banker - Oconomowoc, WI
Waukesha County Realtor Real Estate agent. SOLD!

Steve

Those ants are down right nasty. The big thing by me are box elder beetles

Oct 09, 2012 09:32 AM