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Learn more about common ants in Tennessee
Many species of ants call Middle Tennessee home. Some ants march into your kitchen, while some prefer the spaciousness of your backyard, but none of them are any you want sticking around. Learn more about the common ants you may see around your home or business.
Acrobat ants are a small species of ant with adults ranging in size from 1/16th to 1/8th of an inch.
Acrobat Ants
Argentine ants are well-known for their extremely large colony sizes. A single colony could have hundreds of thousands of workers and hundreds of queens in it.
Argentine Ants
Unlike other ants (such as odorous ants and other nuisances), carpenter ants are much larger. They range from 1/8 to 1/2 of an inch in length. Carpenter ants are often mistaken for swarming termites. But, if you know what to look for, you can distinguish the two.
Carpenter Ants
Fire ant populations have spread all across the U.S., especially the southern states, including Tennessee. They are a very aggressive species of ant that will run towards a disturbance of their nest and deliver a very painful sting.
Fire Ants
Little black ants are native to the United States and, like many other ant species, they are social insects that live in large colonies. As their name suggests, they are very small in size with workers of the colony only measuring about 1.5 mm in length.
Little Black Ants
Odorous house ants are a common ant species that invade Tennessee homes. As their name suggests, when these ants are crushed they give off a foul “rotten-coconut” smell.
Odorous House Ants
Pavement ants are a docile species of ant that, as their name suggests, can be found nesting and living underneath pavement and concrete structures. Adult workers grow to be about 1/8th of an inch in length; the queens grow a bit bigger in size.
Pavement Ants
Pharaoh ants are amber or yellowish color and have a dark brown or black abdomen. Workers grow to be about 1/16th of an inch in length with the queens being slightly larger in size growing to 1/8th of an inch in length.
Pharaoh Ants
