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RE: carpenter ants
perennials@hort.net
  • Subject: RE: carpenter ants
  • From: "* R* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 09:30:53 -0700
I would feed them Amdro.  I like it because it is clean to use (looks something like a plant label with well in end).  The ants are really bad here in Tennessee.  I got covered with tiny red tan ants on Monday.  Still have burns on arms, neck and legs from the acid.  Looks like measles and itchy like crazy.  Should have wash skin when it happened but only a few bites.  Later that night is when the fun started.  I have no more ants marching in my greenhouse after 2 years of trying to get rid of them.  Nancy
 
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: carpenter ants
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 11:46:20 -0400
From: 1018@rewrite.hort.net

I realize this is a perennials forum but hope that someone here may have knowledge of this issue.

 

A year & a half ago I had several large limbs removed from a maple tree in the back yard. He did a good job, cutting correctly for promotion of wound collars.  Instead of healing flat across, some of them have a hole in the center like this drawing shown on a CO university page:

According to that site, the image is a good cut with full collar. So the hole must be OK?

 

However, the hole in the center has drawn carpenter ants as witnessed by piles of frass at the base of the tree.  I now see them coming to and from one of the holes.  I sprayed some ant killer in the hole that I can reach, but others I cannot reach.

 

Am I going to lose the tree altogether?  I don’t want to spend a fortune on an arborist and it doesn’t seem like something I can fix on my own.  How long do you think it can last with this problem – or should I have it fixed or removed because Carpenter ants could decide to start a satellite site in my house about 20 feet away?  I did once years ago have them on the other side of the house in the garage brickmoulding and in another maple out front but had that taken care of professionally.

 

Sorry, I’m rambling…the question is, does anyone have any thoughts on this?

 

Kitty

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