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

Compared with other ultrablack animals, female velvet ants are darker than the common birdwing butterfly, the only other ...

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 ...

The researchers from Nara Women’s University and other institutions said a whiff of a pheromone found naturally on the body surface of the Japanese carpenter ant, a native species, causes the ...