The Ant Species That Commonly Enter Homes To Seek Out Human Foods
We have all experienced the nuisance presence of ants inside our homes at one time or another, whether you’ve caught one crawling across your kitchen counter or a whole slew of them walking around in a line, clearly foraging for food from somewhere inside your house....
How Ant Pests Disperse Into New Areas
Just like termites, most bee species, and many wasp species, ants are social insects that live in colonies. One single ant colony can contain anywhere from a few hundred individual ants to more than 10,000 individual ants, depending on species and colony-age. Many ant...
How Ants And Bees Contain Diseases
It’s amazing to think that social insects such as bees and ants have mechanisms through which they can contain and curb the spread of diseases within their colonies. Now, researchers are looking at how they do it in the hope of helping us fight our battles against...
How Frequent Are Carpenter Ant Infestations?
Carpenter ants are well known for damaging the structural and cosmetic wood sources within homes for nesting purposes, and the ant pests are easy to recognize in the northeast since the primary species in the region, the black carpenter ant, is jet black and...