Carpenter ants are twice as big as other types of black ants, which makes identification easy. If you have a carpenter ant ...

Termites are notorious for the way they affect wood, eating their way into spaces that didn't previously exist. They convert the cellulose in wood to give their bodies nourishment. “In nature, ...

If you've seen, inside your home, ants that are black and larger than the smaller, tan-colored varieties, chances are you have carpenter ants. And they can be very destructive. Unlike smaller, more ...

Ants: hundreds of them. I have at least 500 carpenter ants, big ones, in my house, and I have sprayed and sprayed. Many go away, but others keep coming back. There is an area of rotted wood outside ...

Have you ever looked into an old tree cavity and seen large ants? You are likely looking at carpenter ants. Carpenter ants, unlike termites, do not eat wood. They hollow out wood to make their nests.

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions There are two main species of wood ants - hairy wood ants and red ...

The small industrious wood ant can do more than just build high nests in spruce forests. A newly published scientific article in the journal Microbial Ecology reveals that ants combat a range of plant ...

A new study expanded on a seemingly impossible scenario in which wood ants survived while trapped for years in an abandoned nuclear weapons bunker in Poland. The wooded area around the former Soviet ...

A colony of wood ants trapped in a Soviet nuclear-weapons bunker survived for years on cannibalism. Ants kept falling through a ventilation pipe into the bunker, where they had nothing but corpses to ...

It grows quickly and depends on adult worker ants to feed it. These workers decide how much and what kind of food the larva ...