Do you know which species of ants are living in your home and garden? Identify different ants to learn whether you should get ...

When carpenter ants are in nature, they’re drawn to fallen trees and stumps—any large piece of wood really. The decay that takes over dead or compromised wood outdoors makes it easier to tunnel into ...

If you find carpenter ants inside during periods of warm weather in spring and early summer, that does not necessarily mean that there is a nest in your home. Try to determine whether the ants are ...

I have been seeing some large and small black ants in my kitchen over the last few days and have also noticed them crawling up the trunk of one of my old maple trees. There appears to be sawdust at ...

These unusually large ants can cause serious structural damage to your home. Q: Last year and again this year, we have seen carpenter ants in our unfinished basement. An inspection found no termites.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Noticing a few ants in your home is annoying, but livable. It’s when they happen to be carpenter ants ...

nest in moist wood. They do not eat wood, like termites, but burrow in to nest, which still can cause damage. If you spot a few dozen individual ants in one place in your house, you may have a nest.

It is about this time of year that folks start seeing insects wandering around inside their houses. One of the more noticeable of these insects is the carpenter ant. These chunky black (sometimes red ...

In the forest, carpenter ants have a job to do, recycling woody debris, such as dead trees and fallen logs. But these large ants become nuisances when they forage or nest inside our homes. “Carpenter ...