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• Small black ants with the workers measuring 1/16 of an inch and queens are up to 1/8 of an inch in size.
• These ants are dark-brown to dark black in color with a 12 segmented antennae ending in 3 clubs.
• Little black ants do have a painful bite and have a wide variety of diet including greasy food, sweets, plants and insects.
• Nests are found in walls, cracks in concrete, rotten logs and landscaping.

• Smaller blackish to red ants ranging 1/8 of and inch to 3/8 of an inch depending on the caste and species.
• The southern fire ant, the tropical fire ant and the red imported fire ant.
• It is misunderstood that fire ants bite but they actually sting and are extremely aggressive around nests.
• They nest in large mounds with numerous openings in lawns or soils.
• Ant nests can easily reach up to 500,000 workers with multiple queens.

• Carpenter ants are wood damaging pests that infest structures in Georgia.
• They are often mistaken as termites because of the nesting sites they create in wood.
• Large ants that can range in length from 1/4 of an inch to 1 inch, with a rounded thorax and large chewing mandibles.
• Carpenter ants are red, black or a variation of both colors.
• They prefer moist environments from rotten roofs old stumps, wood piles, hollow trees and mulch.
• Carpenter ants do not eat wood like termites, have a single queen and will nest in numbers up to 100,000 workers.
• Worker ants forage for a wide range of dietary foods from meat to fruits and do bite, although it is not common.

• Argentine ants are tiny light to dark brown ants, also known as sugar ants.
• Size can be as small as 1/16 long as workers to 1/8 of an inch long as queens.
• Smooth, hairless body with a 12 segmented antennae.
• They will build huge nests near the base of shrubs and in wall voids making them one of the most common household ants infesting structures.
• Adults feed on protein based and sugary foods and do not sting.
• They can have super colonies numbering up to 1 million workers with multiple queens.

• Pavement ants are brownish to black in color with light colored legs and range in size from 1/16 of an inch workers, to 3/8 of an inch queens.
• 12 segmented antennae, ending in 3 clubs.
• Distinctive parallel grooved lines in their exoskeleton makes them highly identifiable.
• These insects make nests along curbs, in cracks of pavement and they enter structures in search for food.
• They prefer greasy foods and do not but but have the ability to sting.
• Pavement ant colonies have multiple queens and winged males and females swarm in June and July.

• Pharaoh ants are yellowish-brown in color and 1/12 of an inch in length.
• They have light yellow heads and bodies with red and black markings on the abdomen.
• 12 segmented antennae, ending in 3 clubs.
• Infestations usually occur in food preparation areas and large nests will be in inaccessible voids.
• Pharaoh ants eat a variety of foods including sweets and other insects.
• Pharaoh ants have multiple queens and will colonies to multiple places when disturbed.

• Brown or black in color with a smooth, hairless body and 1/16 to 1/4 of an inch in length.
• Odorous house ants have an uneven thorax and get their name from emitting a rotten coconut smell when smashed.
• Indoors they can nest in wall cracks and voids in floors, outside they can nest in mulch beds and other debris next to the home.
• This species of ants foraging habits are constant from with food sources ranging proteins, juices, desserts and vegetables.
• The colonies have many queens and can grow very large.
• They can have over 100,000 workers and can start new colonies by swarming or budding.

Reddish-brown or black in color and 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch in length.

Acrobat ants have a distinctive heart shaped abdomen and get their name from holding their abdomen over their head.

When disturbed it may prompt them to curl their abdomen like an acrobat and emit a foul odor.

Outdoors their nests will be near or under logs, rocks and rotting tree stumps.

Inside, they nest in foam insulation in walls and attics or in damaged roofing by gaining access by tree branches.

Acrobat ants diet consists of honeydew secreted by aphids, insects and meat.