Carpenter ants can cause structural damage requiring expensive repairs.Ant trails, wood shavings, and damaged wood in your ...

Flying ants are known as alates. In the UK, particularly in urban areas, the winged insects you see are almost always the sexually mature queens and males of the black garden ant, Lasius niger. The ...

And carpenter ants grow wings during the mating season ... and in vegetation. Common black ants are known as garden ants because they like to live close to aphids, which excrete their favorite ...

Habitat/range: Black garden ants (Lasius niger ... ants may bite off their wings. The ants even protect their aphid herds from rustlers—other insect predators.