Ants are part of nature s cleaning crew.
Why are there big ants in my room.
They also like starches and some like greasy foods.
Carpenter ant workers have a smooth and rounded upper thorax unlike common garden ants which have rigged thoraxes.
Those include pavement ants carpenter ants odorous house ants thief ants acrobat ants and pharaoh ants.
But during the winter particularly in colder areas of the country ants are not living and breeding in the open outdoors.
This is why you will probably find a lot of ants under your refrigerator.
They typically measure between 7 and 12 mm inch and have a single node between their thorax and abdomen.
Ants are all about getting food for their colony and they especially like sugary things.
Carpenter ants have a distinctive heart shaped head with large jaws and elbowed antennae.
Why do ants come in even when my house is clean.
Ants can find a lot of the foods they want in the garbage.
It is a known fact that ants are most likely to invade a home if it s not clean since this means that the sources of food are abundant there.
All that stirring up of dirt must have also stirred up massive amounts of ants.
Hi my name is elizabeth i see these ants in my home i just seen my first one yesterday of the year we had a big problem last year with them and told my mom to contact someone about it and she said that they weren t carpenter ants but it looks like the one in the picture they have thos claws in there face and try to get food in our kitchen can.
Carpenter ants are shiny black or reddish in color and will be the largest ants you will see crawling around in your home.
In addition to length there are other characteristics specific to carpenter ants.
The problem is sometimes humans don t want their help.
What are ants doing in my house.
But some species will actually build their nests in your home and camp out there.
Swarmers are even bigger than the ants themselves.
I was a customer s house who had never had ants until the lot behind his house was developed.
Since sugar ants live in the ground there are a number of ways that they can get stirred up.
Even pet food can attract them.
