r/AntIdentification

Looking to identify this ant.
I’m getting over run by them the past week or so

i’m worried it’s carpenter ants but i learned it could also be field ants ? for reference i do live around a big open area of field and there are piles around house but there was quite a bit in 2 dif rooms of mine on the wall so ?

Found late july in south eastern Pennsylvania. Also any tips on how to start a colony with this queen is appreciated.

Northern Colorado. Seen em around outside since I moved in but I just saw at least twenty in my (tiny) bathroom at once, plus several smaller winged ants (maybe 1/6 inch long). While I love bugs, I am worried they may be carpenter ants, as I am new to the area and not familiar with differentiating the native species yet.

I think they're related to the plain old ants who usually hang around my house but they're just so big?? Are they like. A whole bunch of queens???? I know that's absurd but they are HUGE compared to what I thought might be their non-winged counterparts.

Definitely not termites. Distinct three sections on the body + chinched waist.

They are dark red-brown to black, with 3-4 tan-ish stripes on the abdomen which lead into a lighter underbelly. Certain specimens leaned closer to a dark chocolate brown. Two sets of wings with brown venation. Thorax is only slightly thinner than abdomen, and features a broad, flat top. Non-aggressive. Are crawling out of a hole in the grout of my bathroom. Legs are lighter than the body, no super noticable distance between thorax and abdomen. Approximately 1/2 inch (1.3cm) including wings? Couldn't get a good photo of one next to the cm side of the ruler, sorry.

If these are wasps I'm gonna be soooo embarrassed but I don't see a stinger

I saw these ants in western North Dakota that I've never seen on the east side of the state where I live. They moved too fast and my camera isn't great so I wasn't able to get anything other than a blurry picture to show you the color. The weird thing was that they make this huge mound, but it only has one hole for its entrance/exit. They were very aggressive too. They swarmed up my shoe and were trying to bite.

It's mostly the weird mound that makes me want to know what they were. They were mounds like this all over the southwest corner of the state.

I can’t tell if it’s a queen or not because it isn’t very big and I haven’t noticed any other nuptial flights, sorry about the bad video but does anyone have any ideas??

Hey yall, so I found these 3 in my kids pool, I know 2 are ants (I think Solenopsis but really not sure) but not convinced the black one is an ant. Any help woth an ID would be amazing, will provide more pictures tomorrow. Also, I know I need to separate the two but not totally convinced the 2nd one is even gonna make it.

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can anyone help identify these ants and what could be the cause??!

Bare with me: These ants showed up for the first time a few months ago infested in a pile of clean clothes on the ground. ( Yes i know i hate hanging my clothes up it’s something i’m working on). The pile was in the middle of my room with no open food containers in my room at the time. I occasionally leave food in my room, but at the most that’s overnight and up on my desk where there were none. I bought some natural in home cleaner spray that seemed to do the trick and kill them, but i was still confused as to where they came from and why they were drawn to the clothes.

Fast forward to yesterday: No signs of these guys for awhile, and then I grab a bag of closed trail mix that i did have sitting on my floor, and realized that the bag was covered in the same ants. I did have another bag next to it which they were also all over , and the trashcan next to it. Mind you this area is in a different section of my room then where they were first found.

Im a very clean person and keep my room to the same standards, and i’ve never had this problem before except the last few months. i can never pinpoint where they are coming from or anything like that, and it’s starting to drive me insane. They are tinier then the black ants that are usually outside that i’m familiar with, and are also a more lightish tan color. They are not very drawn towards the liquid ant traps that have worked when i’ve had issues with regular black ants in the past , and so i’ve kept using a natural in home ant killer spray.

She seems to be ~15mm long (photos were very zoomed in).

Need help IDing them. South Australia

I live in northern Maine. I’d appreciate an ID for the pair if anyone knows.

I’m reallllllllly hoping they are not a parasitic type because I don’t know if I could find them the proper pupae they would need (There were the very small black ants with their eggs I mentioned in the vid, but I don’t know if they’re Lasius or not I also didn’t see any pupae, but I did see some callow stage workers).

I was shopping online for Lasius species that I could order to my state but everywhere I checked was already sold out, but one that had me fascinated was their sold out Lasius brevicornis. They have the option to order any number of queens together up to nine!!!

That’s what gave me the idea to see if they would show aggression to each other or not.

I really hope these two girls are capable of laying and raising their own eggs and possibly staying together, but I’ll appreciate any info and advice I can get!

Hello! We just bought a new home in NY state and have some large ants. I am hoping to get an ID on the type of ant. This one is 1/3 inch long, and I have attached a photo.

Hi all! My yard is infested with these red ants. They bite and have large and small workers. They are actively hollowing out my poor Dahlia. I’ve been repeatedly told they don’t do this or if they do, they are aphid farming but I see no aphids under leaves or in the hollowed stems. I’m getting some pesticide and diatomaceous earth to try and tamp down the colony(s?). Have any of you experienced this or know what ant species this is (central coast CA)?

BARELY over a millimeter long and about a millimeter wide (including legs)

Southwest Michigan, in bathroom of apartment

I'm hoping these are thief/grease ants and not pharaoh ants