It is said over and over on this forum about ants leaving once the wood is dry. They simply won't stay around unless the wood is wet. I've hesitated posting about this for a long time but now it will be stated. It is pure baloney! Why did I make that statement? As most know, I have a fair sized wood pile that will last a few years. It has been covered so it stays dry and the wood is as you would expect; very dry.
As we quite often do, we have just supplied a family with enough (actually more than enough) wood to get them through the coming heating season. As we were loading the wood into a pickup, on the 3rd row in it was all split white ash. Very dry. Yet, we found a big nest of carpenter ants! Son of a gun, a couple more rows and we found more!
I'm sure there will be some that post about the wood must not have been totally dry, but it was and is extremely dry. I will add that this wood has been covered using galvanized roofing. It has been covered since it was stacked 6 years ago last April. So, how do we explain the ants in this wood pile?
As we quite often do, we have just supplied a family with enough (actually more than enough) wood to get them through the coming heating season. As we were loading the wood into a pickup, on the 3rd row in it was all split white ash. Very dry. Yet, we found a big nest of carpenter ants! Son of a gun, a couple more rows and we found more!
I'm sure there will be some that post about the wood must not have been totally dry, but it was and is extremely dry. I will add that this wood has been covered using galvanized roofing. It has been covered since it was stacked 6 years ago last April. So, how do we explain the ants in this wood pile?