On Jun 24, 9:27 pm, Lar wrote:
Dave wrote:
The 2nd photo is what I'm used to seeing but larger.
http://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/entomolog...7/444-287.html

Probably, I'm incorrect as these prefer trees/wood vs. land environment.
Can be as bad a carpenter ants in voiding trees interior and eating your
house. The former, I've seen in many a stressed live oak.
Dave

Neither carpenter ants or acrobat ants "eat" a house. In homes that have
"foam" based insulation, the acrobats can make more of a mess when the
excavate into the foam. When both CA and acrobats are in a tree they are
in already rotted wood that they are cleaning out the diseased/rotted
wood, actually a benefit to the tree.

Lar

That's encouraging regarding the trees. However, my home is almost 50
years old and I am not sure of the condition of some of the older wood
in the walls; I had some rotten old stumps removed several years ago
and also an old heat pump that sat on a wooden pallet by the back
door. The big black CA apparently lived under this pallet and in the
stumps. In reaction, they made their crazed way into the house,
somehow, even as large as they are. It was like a sci-fi horror
film. So, we had the exterminator out and he scared the daylights out
of me with tales of destruction. Now, every mid-May we see one or two
wing wings and maybe a half-dozen or so around the house, sometimes
even in the house. It is still standing, so I count my blessings and
put out ant bait. At least where we are, there are supposed to be no
termites, a worse threat I think.

Deb