This is why you will probably find a lot of ants under your refrigerator.
Why are there big ants in my room.
Carpenter ants have a distinctive heart shaped head with large jaws and elbowed antennae.
Carpenter ant workers have a smooth and rounded upper thorax unlike common garden ants which have rigged thoraxes.
But some species will actually build their nests in your home and camp out there.
Even pet food can attract them.
The problem is sometimes humans don t want their help.
Since sugar ants live in the ground there are a number of ways that they can get stirred up.
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.
Those include pavement ants carpenter ants odorous house ants thief ants acrobat ants and pharaoh ants.
I was a customer s house who had never had ants until the lot behind his house was developed.
All that stirring up of dirt must have also stirred up massive amounts of ants.
What are ants doing in my house.
Swarmers are even bigger than the ants themselves.
They efficiently find and remove food left around the house.
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.
Ants can find a lot of the foods they want in the garbage.
They also like starches and some like greasy foods.
So if flying ants are seen in the home in the winter it is most likely that it is an ant that is living within the structure of your home and worse it is very likely that there is a carpenter ant nest within the structure.
However there are many incidences where you could keep your house spotless but still notice an ant invasion from time to time.
In addition to length there are other characteristics specific to carpenter ants.
They typically measure between 7 and 12 mm inch and have a single node between their thorax and abdomen.
But during the winter particularly in colder areas of the country ants are not living and breeding in the open outdoors.
Carpenter ants are shiny black or reddish in color and will be the largest ants you will see crawling around in your home.
