The carpenter ant isn’t the only black kind, of course. Carpenter ants are often confused with the black garden ant, aka the common black ant (Lasius niger). A few dead giveaways make it easy to ...

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 ...

“The type of food most attractive to ants depends ... is the carpenter ant. Meek notes that carpenter ants can further damage ...