⭐ Features

Carpenter ants are known for their ability to excavate smooth tunnels and galleries in wood, which they use to build nests. Unlike termites, they do not eat wood but remove it to create living spaces. They communicate using pheromones and can form complex colony structures with multiple satellite nests. Carpenter ants are also notable for their ability to care for aphids, protecting them in exchange for honeydew. They have strong mandibles that allow them to chew through wood and defend their colony effectively.

📍 Habitat

Carpenter ants are commonly found in moist, decaying, or hollow wood both outdoors and indoors. Outdoors, they nest in tree stumps, logs, firewood piles, and wooden structures like fences or decks. Indoors, they are often found 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 behavior of creating small mounds of soil between pavement cracks. They exhibit complex social organization, including cooperative foraging and food sharing through trophallaxis. Pavement ants are also notable for their aggressive territorial battles with neighboring colonies, often resulting in large ant skirmishes. They have a diverse diet, feeding on insects, seeds, honeydew, and human food scraps. Additionally, pavement ants can adapt to urban environments, nesting under sidewalks and building foundations, and are capable of relocating their colonies when disturbed.

📍 Habitat

Pavement ants are most commonly found in urban and suburban areas, especially around sidewalks, driveways, patios, building foundations, and cracks in pavement. They often nest under concrete slabs, stones, bricks, and along the edges of buildings. Indoors, they may be found in basements, along baseboards, and near heat sources.

⭐ Features

Odorous house ants are known for emitting a distinctive, rotten coconut-like smell when crushed. They form large, polydomous colonies with multiple queens, allowing them to relocate nests quickly when disturbed. These ants exhibit a preference for sweet foods and can create foraging trails over long distances. They are highly adaptable, able to nest in a variety of locations, and display cooperative behavior between colonies, often merging without aggression.

📍 Habitat

Odorous house ants are most commonly found in kitchens, bathrooms, and around food storage areas inside homes. Outdoors, they nest under rocks, mulch, logs, and in soil near foundations. They often enter buildings through cracks and gaps in search of food and water.

⭐  Features

Pharaoh ants are notable for their ability to form complex, multi-queen colonies, which allows them to rapidly recover from disruptions and makes them difficult to control. They practice "budding," where a subgroup of workers and queens can split off to form new colonies. These ants are highly adaptable in their nesting preferences, often establishing colonies in hidden, inaccessible locations within buildings. They also exhibit intricate social organization and communicate using pheromones to coordinate foraging and colony activities. Pharaoh ants are known for their preference for a wide variety of foods, including proteins, sweets, and fats, and can exploit even the smallest food sources.

📍 Habitat

Pharaoh ants are commonly found in warm, humid indoor environments. Typical areas include kitchens, bathrooms, hospitals, food storage areas, wall voids, behind baseboards, under floors, and inside electrical outlets. They are attracted to food and water sources and often nest near sinks, pipes, and appliances.