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Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are large ants (workers 7 to 13 mm or 1 ⁄ 4 to 1 ⁄ 2 in) indigenous to many forested parts of the world. [ 4 ] They build nests inside wood, consisting of galleries chewed out with their mandibles or jaws, preferably in dead, damp wood.
An entomologist explains how to spot the signs of an infestation of carpenter ants, a wood-destroying pest, in your home—and the only way to get rid of them.
Myrmentoma, the cleft-lip carpenter ants, [2] is a subgenus of Camponotus, the carpenter ants. [1] Its Nearctic species nest in galls, branches and stems of plants, under tree bark, in wood and buildings, or soil. Colonies are generally small with a few dozen or a few hundred workers. [3]
Camponotus herculeanus (or Hercules ant) [1] is a species of ant in the genus Camponotus, the carpenter ants, [2] occurring in Northern Eurasia, from Norway to Eastern Siberia, and North America. First described as Formica herculeana by Linnaeus in 1758 , [ 3 ] the species was moved to Camponotus by Mayr in 1861.
· Carpenter ants vary in size from ¼ to 1/2 inch; they do not eat wood like termites, but they will excavate damp wood in your house to create galleries where they nest.
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