⭐ Features

Odorous House Ants emit a distinctive rotten coconut-like smell when crushed, which is their most notable feature. They are highly adaptable in their nesting habits, often relocating their colonies in response to disturbances. These ants form large, multi-queen colonies, allowing for rapid population growth and resilience. They exhibit a preference for sweet foods and are known for creating visible foraging trails indoors. Their ability to survive both indoors and outdoors, along with their tendency to move nests frequently, makes them persistent household pests.

📍 Habitat

The most common areas where you can find Odorous House Ants include kitchens, bathrooms, under sinks, around water pipes, inside wall voids, beneath floors, and near sources of moisture. Outdoors, they are often found under rocks, logs, mulch, and in soil near building foundations.

⭐ Features

Carpenter ants are known for their ability to excavate wood to create intricate nest galleries, which distinguishes them from termites as they do not eat the wood but remove it to build their colonies. They communicate using pheromones and can deploy formic acid as a defense mechanism. Carpenter ants have a well-organized social structure with distinct castes, including workers, soldiers, and a queen. They are also nocturnal foragers, often traveling long distances from their nests in search of food, and are capable of forming satellite colonies connected to the main nest.

📍 Habitat

Carpenter ants are most commonly found in moist, decaying, or hollow wood, including tree stumps, logs, and dead trees. Indoors, they often nest in wall voids, window and door frames, crawl spaces, attics, and areas with water damage such as around sinks, bathtubs, and dishwashers. They are attracted to wood that has been softened by moisture.

⭐ Features

Pavement ants are known for their distinctive habit of creating small mounds of soil between cracks in pavement and sidewalks. They exhibit complex social behaviors, including organized foraging trails and cooperative food transport. Pavement ants are also notable for their aggressive territorial battles with neighboring colonies, often resulting in large ant confrontations. They have a diverse diet, feeding on a wide range of foods including insects, seeds, and human food scraps. Additionally, pavement ants communicate using pheromones to coordinate activities and maintain colony organization.

📍 Habitat

The most common areas where you can find pavement ants are sidewalks, driveways, patios, building foundations, cracks in pavement, and along the edges of concrete slabs. Indoors, they are often found in kitchens, basements, and under floors near heat sources.

⭐  Features

The Argentine ant is notable for forming supercolonies, where multiple nests cooperate without aggression, creating vast interconnected populations. They exhibit highly efficient cooperative foraging, using pheromone trails to recruit nestmates to food sources rapidly. Their social structure is flexible, with multiple queens per colony, enhancing their ability to reproduce and expand. Argentine ants also displace native ant species through aggressive resource competition and can disrupt local ecosystems by tending plant pests like aphids for honeydew.

📍 Habitat

The Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) is commonly found in urban and suburban areas, especially around homes, gardens, sidewalks, and parks. They are also prevalent in agricultural fields, greenhouses, and irrigated landscapes. Indoors, they often nest near moisture sources such as kitchens, bathrooms, and under sinks. Outdoors, they nest in soil, under stones, logs, mulch, and along building foundations. Their range includes many temperate and Mediterranean climates worldwide, particularly in southern United States, California, southern Europe, Australia, and South Africa.