🪲 See this material sitting on a cut stump?
This is what we find inside trees with carpenter ant damage.
It’s called frass — the debris left behind as ants excavate galleries inside the wood. Sawdust, soil, and wood fragments, all packed together.
When you find this at the base of a tree or inside bark crevices, an active colony may be established — and the structural damage can be significant.
The hard truth: by the time you see this on the outside, the inside of the tree can already be significantly compromised.
If you’re seeing large black ants on your trees this summer, it’s worth a closer look before fall storms put pressure on weakened wood.
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