⭐ 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 strong preference for sweet foods and are known for creating visible foraging trails indoors. Their ability to survive and thrive in a variety of environments 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, mulch, logs, and in soil near building foundations.

⭐ Features

Pavement ants are known for their distinctive nesting behavior, often building colonies under sidewalks, driveways, and building foundations. They create visible soil mounds with small craters at entry points. These ants are highly organized, engaging in large-scale battles with neighboring colonies, especially during spring and early summer. Pavement ants have a diverse diet, feeding on seeds, honeydew, insects, and human food scraps. They communicate using pheromones to coordinate foraging and defense. Their colonies are structured with multiple queens, allowing for rapid population growth and resilience.

📍 Habitat

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

⭐ 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 produce a rustling sound, called stridulation, by rubbing body parts together. Carpenter ants have a highly organized social structure with specialized roles, including workers, soldiers, and a queen. They are also capable of forming satellite colonies, allowing them to expand and adapt to various nesting sites within a structure. Their foraging behavior is notable for its efficiency, often following well-established trails to food sources, and they can tend to aphids for honeydew, displaying mutualistic relationships with other insects.

📍 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

Pharaoh ants are notable for their complex social structure, including multiple queens within a single colony, which allows them to rapidly reproduce and recover from disruptions. They practice "budding," where a group of workers and queens break off to form new colonies, making them difficult to control. Pharaoh ants are also known for their ability to exploit a wide range of food sources, including proteins, sweets, and fats, and for their tendency to nest in hidden, inaccessible locations within buildings. Their colonies can communicate and coordinate through pheromones, enabling efficient foraging and colony expansion.

📍 Habitat

Pharaoh ants are most commonly found in warm, humid indoor environments such as hospitals, apartment buildings, hotels, restaurants, and grocery stores. They often nest in wall voids, behind baseboards, under floors, inside electrical outlets, and near sources of food and water like kitchens and bathrooms. They are rarely found outdoors in temperate climates.