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Ants in Tennessee
Middle Tennessee has a lot of ant species. Some march the kitchen. Some nest in wet wood. Some sting. Tap the ant that looks like what you found in Spring Hill, Columbia, Santa Fe, or Franklin.
Tap the one that looks like what you see
Acrobat Ants
Acrobat Ants
Small ants with a heart-shaped abdomen they tip up when bothered — that is the “acrobat.” Color runs from light brown to black. Workers are…
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Argentine Ants
Argentine Ants
Slender light-to-dark brown ants that build huge supercolonies — hundreds of queens, continuous trails. No sting of note. One colony can bla…
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Carpenter Ants
Carpenter Ants
The big ones. Black, or black-and-red. Pinched waist, elbowed antennae. Flying reproductives in April and May have two pairs of uneven wings…
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Fire Ants
Fire Ants
Red-brown to dark ants with a copper head. Mounds are fluffy with no hole on top. Disturb the mound and they pour out and sting.
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Little Black Ants
Little Black Ants
Tiny all-black workers, all one size. Native. Easy to miss until the trail is a river on a baseboard.
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Odorous House Ants
Odorous House Ants
Small dark brown to black ants. Crush one and it smells like rotten coconut. That smell is the ID.
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Pavement Ants
Pavement Ants
Dark brown workers with fine parallel lines on the head. They nest under pavement and push little sand cones up through cracks.
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Pharaoh Ants
Pharaoh Ants
Amber or yellowish ants with a darker abdomen. Very small. Easy to mistake for “sugar ants” until they take over a whole apartment stack.
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