Common House Ants

Little black ants are indigenous throughout the world. They are so named because of their dark black coloring and their tiny body. They usually range in size from 1/16th to 1/8th of an inch. |Tiny little black ants are common place throughout the world. Their name relates to their small size and their dark black color. They are usually only about 1/16th-1/8th of an inch. {The Queen ants are about twice that size. Little black ants dwell under the ground in chambers hewed out of the earth. They are grouped in colonies, each containing a queen. The presence of a colony can be recognized by a tiny mound of fine dirt, seen above ground. They usually live at the edge of the forest or near human dwellings. Sometimes they are found in rotting tree stumps Each black ant colony has one queen, whose job is breeding worker ants, and many workers who support the queen. Once the colony is established, the Queen will breed male and female ants called swarmers. These winged insects fly around looking for a new colony. The male and female swarmers mate. The males die and the females chose a new colony location, where they tunnel into the earth, forming a new home. The queen lives underground without food until she has breed the new generation of worker ants who quickly go out and begin searching for food to sustain the new colony. The little black ants will eat a variety of foods. They prefer either sweet foods, including human sweets or honey dew made by other insect species. However, they will feed on any types of scrapes of human food including meat and bread crumbs. They also feed on dead insects. Sometimes they will venture into homes, when they are foraging for food.The little industrious ants are busy night and day foraging for food and they can carry up to 20 times their body weight in food back to the nest. That's the equivalent of humans carrying a 1,600 pound load! While adult ants have strong jaws, they imbibe food by sucking the juice out of their meal and leaving the dried residue. When ants enter into a house the best way to get them out is to set out ant bait stations, with ant poison. The ants will take the poison back to the colony, where they and the queen will ingest it and die. This %LINK1% technique takes several weeks to fully work, but is an effective form of %LINK2%

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