Pavement Ants – Pest Management Professional

Most Wanted Ants: Pavement ant

The pavement ant is dark brown with paler legs and antennae, and a stinger used more for applying trailing pheromone...

PHOTO: JOHN OBERMEYER, PURDUE UNIVERSITY

Purdue study fine-tunes baiting for pavement ants

Blanket baiting as an initial treatment for pavement ants may be followed by target baiting ... to provide favorable customer...

Pavement ants: Always ready to rumble

Dr. Michael Greene, associate professor and graduate program director for the University of Colorado Denver Department of Integrative Biology, studies...

Acrobat Ants, Revisited

By: Gerry Wegner Ph.D. Acrobat ants (Crematogaster spp.), are interesting to pest management professionals (PMPs) for a number of reasons. There...

These Aren’t Carpenter Ants!

By: Gerry Wegner Ph.D. Seasoned pest management professionals know that carpenter ants, Camponotus spp., comprise only one genus of ants that readily excavate...

Pest ID: Pavement ant

By: Dr. Kyle Jordan Because it often nests in or under cracks in pavement, Tetramorium caespitum is commonly referred to as...