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Ants In and Around the Home, HYG-2064-96 |
 | | Ants are social insects that live in colonies or nests usually located in the soil near the house foundation, under concrete slabs, in crawlspaces, in structural wood, in the yard or garden, in trees and in other protected places. |
 | | New ant colonies are started by a single fertilized queen that lays eggs and tends her brood (larvae and pupae) that develop into worker ants. |
 | | Ants present the appearance of running aimlessly about a room and, thus, named "crazy." Workers are about 1/10 inch long, with slender long legs, dark brown to fl in color, one node petiole, the profile of the thorax not evenly rounded, and the abdomen tip has a circular fringe of hairs. |
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