Ants
Ant colonies can be found on nearly all land on Earth. Ants prosper in most environments, likely because of their ability to utilize their resources, alter their environments, and work together to protect themselves.
Entry: Ants usually find their way through even the tiniest of spaces and are attracted to water and sweet food smells.
Scent Trails: Ants leave a scent trail for the other ants to follow and then follow this scent trail back to their nest.
Nest Locations: Ants create colonies in any small space that they can find. Some of these spaces will be in your home or your home’s foundation, under tree stumps, and even dug into the ground.
Colony Size: Ant colonies range from one with a few individuals in a small space to colonies with millions of ants living together.
Colony Lifetime: Ant colonies usually have a long life. Queens can live as long as 30 years, workers as long as 7 years, and the males that reproduce usually live only a couple of years.
Do-it-yourself Effectiveness: Eliminate food sources and seal cracks in your home.
Argentine Ant
Size 1/16” Color Brown Description The Argentine Ant is a light to dark brown, small ant that is a highly invasive pest. Their nests are usually in shallow burrows, under vegetation or in logs. They are an invasive pest and will invade nests of insects and colonies of other ant species. New queens will leave more »
Allegheny Mound Ant
Size 1/8”-1/4” Color Black and brown Description The Allegheny Mound Ant has a brown head and midsection with a black body. The ant workers build their nest in the ground, pushing loose soil to the surface as they dig downward. The nest mound can extend three feet down and the mound will grow larger as more »
Carpenter Ant
Size Up to 5/8″ Color Black, Brown, Red Description Several species of Carpenter Ants live in the US and there are different sizes of worker ants in each colony. The workers live about 7 years and the queen about 15 years. Control Advice Carpenter Ants burrow through wood to create pathways between nests and food more »
Acrobat Ant
Size 1/8”-1/4” Color Brown, Black, Red Description The Acrobat Ant ranges in size from the smaller, solid colored brown ants to larger ants that are black and red. The Acrobat ant nests in decaying wood outdoors or in a building and will sometimes nest in an abandoned ant or termite colony. It can also nest more »
Big-headed Ant
Size 1/8”-1/4” Color Brown Description The Big-headed Ant can range from a dark yellow to a reddish brown in color, depending on the species. They nest in soft soil in colonies with multiple queens and workers tunnel between colonies to create a super-colony. There are two kinds of Big-headed ant workers. The larger warriors are more »
Citronella Ant
Size 1/4”-3/8” Color Yellow to brown Description The Citronella Ant varies from an orange-yellow color to a light brown but it is the scents they emit when crushed or threatened that give the Citronella ant its name. Citronella ants are active at night and may not be detected until they swarm in spring as the more »
Crazy Ant
Size 1/8” Color Tan, Yellow Description The Crazy Ant gets its name from the way that it runs frantically about at top speed, unlike its cousins who seem to follow a trail one by one. Tan or yellow in color, the Crazy Ant also has hair on its abdomen so it appears less shiny than more »
Field Ant
Size 3/8” Color Black to Yellow Description The Field Ant varies in color from black, brown, red, and even yellow, depending on the species. The Field ant workers are large and easily mistaken for carpenter ants. Some Field ants eat other insects and others prefer the honeydew produced by aphids and other plant pests. They more »
Fire Ant
Size 1/8”-3/8” Color Reddish brown Description The Fire Ant is a reddish brown ant that is known to be very aggressive and will sting with little provocation. It nests in the ground, creating a mound that is about 6” high and 1 to 2 feet across but can be larger. They will also nest under more »
Ghost Ant
Size 1/16” Color Black to pale yellow Description The Ghost Ant is tiny with a black head an almost translucent pale yellow body and legs. It is a highly invasive ant, building colonies with multiple queens and thousands of workers. They are opportunistic nesters. Outside they create a nest underground, under leaves or mulch, or more »
Harvester Ant
Size 3/8”-1/2” Color Black to reddish brown Description The Harvester Ant is a larger ant and can be black, reddish brown, or brown, and is an especially aggressive ant that will bite and sting. Medical attention should be sought immediately if you experience multiple stings or have an allergic reaction to the venom. Harvester ants more »
Little Black Ant
Size 1/16”-1/2” Color Black Description Little black ants are black and very small. A colony of little black ants will have several 1/2” queens and thousands of 1/16” workers. The colony grows quickly with each queen laying live pupa that mature in about 10 days. When the colony is too big winged ants will fly more »
Moisture Ant
Size 1/8” Color Yellowish-brown Description Moisture Ants are very small and a dark yellow in color. They are also known as Cornfield Ants, likely because they feed on honeydew produced by aphids and other plant pests that commonly infest plant crops. Moisture ants create new colonies in August and September by swarming to a new more »
Odorous House Ant
Size 1/8” Color Dark brown Description Odorous House Ants are tiny ants that feed on insects, sweet fruits, and honeydew produced by aphids and other plant pests. They create nests in logs or under leaves, or dig shallow nests underground or under rocks. Colonies of Odorous house ants can be very large with multiple queens more »
Pavement Ant
Size 1/8” Color Reddish-brown to black Description Pavement Ants nest outdoors under places like rocks, logs, and leaves. They have adapted to urban environments by nesting in the soil under sidewalks and building foundations, where they push soil up through the sidewalk cracks and beside the foundation to let air into the nest. Indoors they more »
Pharaoh Ant
Size 1/16” Color Yellow to red Description Pharaoh Ants are very tiny light-colored ants that thrive in buildings that provide shelter, warmth, moisture and food. Pharaoh ants will nest in small wall spaces, concrete blocks, and have even been found nesting in furniture, clothing, bedding, appliances, and sheets of paper. Pharaoh ants create scent trails more »
Texas Leaf Cutter Ant
Size 1/16”-1/2” Color Reddish-brown Description Texas Leaf Cutter Ants feed on a fungus they grow inside the colony’s nest. When starting a new colony, the queen will carry a piece of the colony’s fungus to her new nesting site. As her new colony grows, workers harvest plants near the colony site to cultivate the fungus. more »
Thief Ant
Size 1/32”-1/8” Color Yellow to brown Description Tiny and light in color, Thief Ants are known for nesting close to other ant species for the purpose of stealing their food. They are opportunistic nesters, finding shelter nearly anywhere outdoors or inside buildings. Their nests will be large, with tunnels leading to other ant colony nests. more »
Velvety Tree Ant
Size 1/10”-1/4” Color Brown, red, and black Description The Velvety Tree Ant has a brown head, red midsection, and a velvety black rear. The colony will have one queen and thousands of workers. The Velvety Tree ant often lives in trees, nesting under tree bark, and can be seen climbing up and down the tree more »
White-footed Ant
Size 1/8” Color Black and white Description The White-footed Ant is a tiny black ant with yellowish-white on the bottom half of its legs. The White-footed ant was first discovered in Florida in 1986 and is still being studied. It was introduced to the United States in imported plants and is expected to spread with more »
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