A reader in Fairfax Station, Va. A: Carpenter ants can cause serious structural damage to a house, so it’s smart to be concerned. These unusually large ants — often a quarter to half an inch ...

Odorous house ants are about 1/8-inch long and are ... All ants like moisture, and carpenter ants excavate soft, water-damaged wood and can cause further structural damage to your home.

Carpenter ants, which include more than a thousand species ... gracilipes), is capable of forming so-called supercolonies that house hundreds or even thousands of queens. On Australia’s ...

Depending on its condition, a wooden window sill could be a nice place for carpenter ants to hang (especially if the wood outside has started to rot). The ants bore into the wood to make their nests.

The scientists also discovered that (Z)-9-tricosene activated broad regions of the ants’ brains that are responsible for discriminating between friend and foe. Ozaki said the Japanese carpenter ...