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2. How To Get Rid Of Ants In Your House Once And For All - AOL

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   · Carpenter ants vary in size from ¼ to 1/2 inch; they do not eat wood like termites, but they will excavate damp wood in your house to create galleries where they nest.

3. Tapinoma sessile - Wikipedia

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   T. sessile is a small ant that ranges in color from brown to black, and varies in length from 1 ⁄ 16 to 1 ⁄ 8 inches (1.5–3.2 mm). When crushed, these ants leave a smell which leads to their nickname "stink ant".

4. Here's How to Get Rid of Ants in Your Home and Yard for Good

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   How far ants will travel for food depends on the species, but it’s generally within about 25 feet of the nest. The colony is almost always found outside, so look around to identify where they ...

5. Get rid of ants in your NC home: Pesticides and intervention ...

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   Sugar bait with a toxicant, such as boric acid, typically works well, since many ant species that enter homes are sweet-loving ants. This will work slowly as foraging ants take food back to the queen.

6. Insect pheromones - Wikipedia

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   Towards the end of the 1950s, Edward O. Wilson defined substances that trigger the alarm and burrowing behavior of ants as chemical releaser. [24] In 1961, the British biochemist Robert Kenneth Callow identified another pheromone, also known as the queen bee pheromone, with the compound ( E )-9-oxo-dec-2-enoic acid , or 9-ODA for short. [ 25 ]

7. Black carpenter ant - Wikipedia

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   Black carpenter ants are polymorphic, workers can be in different sizes. The queens can reach a length of 19–21 mm and the largest workers (super majors) can achieve similar sizes of around 14–17 mm . They, along with several other Camponotus species, are among the largest species of ant in North America. As with all ants, the antennae are ...