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Odorous House Ants
- Size
- 2.4 to 3.5 mm long (1/8th of an inch)
- Color
- Locations
- Eating Preferences
- Teeth
- 2 enlarged teeth at the front with 12 other tiny teeth
- Stinger
- Queen
- Multiple queens per colony
- Eggs
- White in color (11 to 26 days incubation)
- Nests
- Very opportunistic and will nest almost anywhere
- Regularly under piles of lumber and old building materials
- Under boards and pacing stones
- Under any standing item (e.g. water butt, gas tank etc)
- In wall cavities
- Near hot-water pipes and heaters
- Under floorboards
- Bee hives
- Despite their name, more often than not Odorous House Ants nest outside but appear to nest inside homes when they're noticed venturing inside in large numbers in search of food
- Propagation
- Queens leave the main colony and setup a new colony with an army of workers
- Foraging
- Very noticeable foraging trails that are easy to follow but not always easy to follow all the way back to the nest
- Forage for food night and day
- Most likely to venture inside after heavy rains wash away the honeydew from the plants outside
- Predators
- Odorous House Ants are native to The United States but have been beaten down heavily since the arrival of Argentine Ants who will usually drive them away winning almost every encounter.
- Odor
- When you crush the ant it produces an unpleasant odor similar to that of rotten-coconut
- How to Kill
- Use Maxforce Granular Bait
- Track down and bait every trail you can find
- Sprinkle bait around nesting sites - but not directly onto the nest
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