A reader in Fairfax Station, Va. A: Carpenter ants can cause serious structural damage to a house, so it’s smart to be concerned. These unusually large ants — often a quarter to half an inch ...

These little black insects are usually a sign that your home is being invaded by carpenter ants. The wood-destroying insects are known for tunneling through wood to make their nests, compromising ...

Sugar ants are one of the most common types of house ants, but you may also find carpenter ants or fire ants in and around your home. Carpenter ants are large, black ants that tend to build nests ...

Carpenter ants, which include more than a thousand species ... gracilipes), is capable of forming so-called supercolonies that house hundreds or even thousands of queens. On Australia’s ...

The scientists also discovered that (Z)-9-tricosene activated broad regions of the ants’ brains that are responsible for discriminating between friend and foe. Ozaki said the Japanese carpenter ...