We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Ants are a common sight during warmer months, but there's one species that makes its presence known with an unmistakable scent. Odorous house ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Last week, Sharon Cage walked into her kitchen and found ants marching across the counters. They were dark in color, all the same itty-bitty size, squeezing their way in around the ...

One of the most common house ant species might have been built for living in a forest, but the ants have found ways to take advantage of the comforts of city living. A new study has found that odorous ...

Humans aren’t the only ones who enjoy the sweet taste of sugar. Many people head into their kitchens only to be greeted by a swarm of sugar ants taking over a sweet treat or sticky spill on the ...

The odorous house ant, Tapinoma sessile, is one of the most common ants in the US, and people who’ve actually sniffed their fingers after crushing them typically liken the smell to rotten coconuts, ...

Odorous house ants - so called because they tend to invade houses and smell like coconut when smashed - have found their way to Hawaii. And, according to entomologists, it doesn't seem as though they ...

Ah, ant season. Time to stagger-stomp in your kitchen — swearing you'll send them to that great anthill in the sky — and watch them scurry out from under your toaster. Ewwww, ants in your toast.

It’s a tale of bright lights, big colonies: Rural ants go wild in the city. The first systematic lifestyle survey of odorous house ants confirms how much a modest country dweller can change habits in ...

They are tiny, numerous and smell like rotten coconuts when crushed between your fingers. And they could be coming to your home soon. Odorous house ants first started showing up in the Dallas-Fort ...

When a co-worker handed me a copy of Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants of Chicago—part of a series that includes a book on common ants in general, common ants of New York City, and of California—it ...

As the law of nature and the food chain dictates, ants do have their predators. In Arkansas, though, ant predators are few. Ants will eat other ants and a few parasites attack ants, but anteaters aren ...