Not all carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are black. But the two species you’re most likely to find in North America — the Eastern carpenter ant (Camponotus pennsylvanicus) and the Western one ...

What Americans call “sugar ants” are actually carpenter, pavement, rover, acrobat, pharaoh, Argentine, or little black ants. We call them “sugar ants” because they will seek out sugar, cookies, honey, ...

Ants range in size from the miniscule up to one inch long, and usually appear black, brown ... or in trees. Carpenter ants, which include more than a thousand species in the genus Camponotus ...