One kind of carpenter ant in Asia will commit suicide to protect the nest by causing its head to explode, spraying the enemy with a toxic substance. This is known as autothysis. That would be ...

Fortunately, the carpenter ant species common in the South typically don’t cause as much damage—and rarely structural ...

Carpenter ants are dark and big—the queen may be as big as 1 inch long—and have narrow “waists” with one node. When you look from the side, the thorax—or area behind the head—looks ...

There are an estimated 20 quadrillion ants all over the planet, except in Antarctica — a bummer, considering the continent’s name. But a close-up shot of a carpenter ant that started making ...

Whether the ant has eyes on its head; One-node ants. Some common species of nuisance one-node ants include: ... Carpenter ants bore into wood structures, leaving behind little piles of sawdust.

Carpenter ants don’t actually eat wood. They dine on a whole range of other foods that other ants like, too: insects, honeydew from plants, pet food and scraps of people food (both meat and sweets).

Florida carpenter ants were observed performing surgery on each other. By Jennifer Vilcarino. July 3, 2024, 3:56 PM. 0:19. Wide shot of an ant amputating an injured ant's leg. Bart Zijlstra, UNIL.

Carpenter ants are bigger than pavement ants and make their nests, called galleries, in soft, rotted wood. These industrious creatures will hike to your home from a tree as far as 20 feet away.

Humans aren’t the only ones capable of performing amputations to save lives. Florida carpenter ants have been observed biting off the injured limbs of nestmates, depending on the location of the ...

Florida carpenter ants were observed cleaning wounds and carrying out leg amputations to save the lives of their nestmates, according to a new study.