“Carpenter ants are adept at chewing through all types of wood as long as they’re not treated or pressure treated. So, they can chew through sound wood to create their galleries, but it is a ...

Carpenter ants, which include more than a thousand species ... which some experts believe constitutes a colony “memory.” This kind of communal knowledge is essential for defense, so ants ...

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Ozaki, 67, and other team members tested 35 types of pheromones ... Ozaki said the Japanese carpenter ant pheromone likely led the South American ants to assume the presence of a dominant foe ...