Small piles of sawdust beneath your doors or hear light rustling in your walls are signs you may have a carpenter ant ...

Another sure sign of a problem: finding masses of winged carpenter ants swarming indoors around a window. In Virginia, this usually occurs in May through July, and only after a colony is mature ...

The workers range in size from ¼-inch long to 5/8-inch long. In late winter to early spring, carpenter ants swarm to mate and start new colonies. These reproductives will have two sets of wings ...