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Carpenter Ant

Camponotus Pennsylvanicus

Description:

Carpenter ants are among the largest ants in the United States, ranging from 3.4 to 13 mm long. The most common color is black, but some species have reddish or yellowish coloration. Workers have large mandibles. Ants of the genus Camponotus are known as carpenter ants because they prefer to establish their colonies in galleries excavated from damp or damaged wood. Carpenter ants do not eat wood as termites do, but instead remove wood and deposit the debris outside of their nests in small piles.

Habitat:

Carpenter ants reside both outdoors and indoors in moist, decaying or hollow wood. They cut galleries into the wood grain to form their nests and provide passageways for movement from section to section of the nest.

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Union County Early College
Spotted by a stud ent at Union County Early College

Monroe, North Carolina, USA

Spotted on Apr 14, 2015
Submitted on Apr 14, 2015

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