After years of finding carpenter
ants in other people's buildings, it
has finally happened to me. I was
about 4 feet from my single-story
wood-frame garage, when I heard a
"skritching" sound coming from the
clapboard wall. The sound was not
faint. Even with cars passing nearby,
I heard it quite plainly. I put my ear
to the wall and confirmed the source
of the sound: the methodical
crunching of wood fibers as the
pesky little beggars gnawed out the
side of my garage.
On someone else's building it's an
interesting problem with effective,
but sometimes expensive, solutions.
When it's your own home it's malicious
destruction of property. I
grabbed a pry bar and a spray can of
the worst