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 ...

Set out baits labeled for carpenter ants. Baits can be effective because ants share food with each other, says Benson. Place them outside your home where you see ants foraging or entering the home.

Pests such as ants can make their way into your home through some of the smallest nooks and crannies. (Dreamstime/TNS) As summer temperatures rise across South Carolina, so does activity from one of ...

Ants make a series of clever architectural adjustments to their nests to prevent the spread of disease, University of Bristol research has uncovered. Study lead author Luke Leckie, a Ph.D. researcher ...

If an infection takes hold in an ants’ nest, it could spell disaster for the whole colony. But some worker ants appear to have a workaround for that. When exposed to a pathogen, black garden ants ...

Source: Princeton University Press/with permission. Ants are fascinating and remarkably intelligent insects who live in complex social groups called colonies. 1,2 When I first learned about ant expert ...

The insects seem to know which injuries to treat as they engage in a behavior that seems almost human. By Annie Roth The life of a Florida carpenter ant can be brutal. These half-inch ants are ...