Carpenter ants are a difficult pest to deal with,” says Emma Grace Crumbley, a professional entomologist who, as a member of the pest management company Mosquito Squad, helps educate the public about ...

Compared to the others, carpenter ants are huge, reaching lengths between 1/2-in. and 5/8-inches. The largest competitor, the common black ant, is about half that size.

To understand why the ants were so specific in their ministrations and recreate the injuries in a lab setting, the researchers would remove a single ant from the nest, working with small colonies ...

While most of the ants you’ll typically find in your kitchen can be found throughout the United States (like the odorous house ant), some varieties prefer certain regions over others.

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 ...