Behavior
- Feed on sweets, fresh fruit, and
buds of some plants
- Tend honeydew-producing species
- Forage for sweets and oils in homes
- Travel rapidly in distinctive trails along sidewalks, up sides
of buildings, along branches of trees and shrubs, along baseboards,
and under edges of carpets
- Colonies may split in spring and summer when queen and workers
move to new site; not antagonistic toward each other
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Nest
type and size
- Outdoors in soil, under wood, slabs, debris, mulch, or in branches
and cavities of trees and shrubs
- Shallow, 1- to 2-inch deep mounds in open, often disturbed habitats,
either moist or dry
- Millions of ants per colony with multiple
queens and many subcolonies
Quick
Management Tips
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