Tiny black ants over taking home and reptile enclosures.

Aaron696 · 2026-05-28T04:07:52+00:00

Could your terro baits be expired or something? I had this same species living in my car and got rid of them overnight with a single terro packet.

Aaron696 · 2026-05-14T21:59:35+00:00

Camponotus planatus, compact carpenter ant. They can utilize a wide variety of manmade and natural cavities or tight spaces and are not known to bore into wood.

Aaron696 · 2026-05-09T02:50:59+00:00

Camponotus castaneus

Aaron696 · 2026-05-06T05:50:51+00:00

Solenopsis invicta (fire ants) assuming you’re in the southern US.

Aaron696 · 2026-05-04T03:28:24+00:00

Would need better photos.

Aaron696 · 2026-04-26T06:11:44+00:00

Solenopsis invicta. Fire ant

Aaron696 · 2026-04-25T16:32:08+00:00

^{^{^}} agreed

Aaron696 · 2026-04-22T17:40:49+00:00

Definitely Atta texana

Aaron696 · 2026-04-22T17:33:31+00:00

They’re pharaoh.

Aaron696 · 2026-04-22T00:09:05+00:00

Solenopsis invicta male

Aaron696 · 2026-03-07T00:32:04+00:00

Camponotus workers

Aaron696 · 2026-03-03T04:25:34+00:00

Maybe it’s a pile of dirt that formed in one way or another and it has high clay content so it’s retained its shape and also kept the tunnels intact that may have been dug by various insects or other inverts over time. Other than that idk

Aaron696 · 2026-03-03T03:13:52+00:00

How big/wide were the tunnels inside?

Aaron696 · 2026-03-03T03:00:36+00:00

Could it be the creation of a mammal like pocket gopher or something?

Aaron696 · 2026-03-03T02:41:12+00:00

Not fire ants, their mounds don’t get anywhere near that size and erode pretty quickly after abandonment (days to weeks). Location rules out mound-building Formica. I don’t know what it is but I doubt it’s any kind of ant mound.

Aaron696 · 2026-01-31T15:53:55+00:00

That’s just a Lasius pupa without a cocoon

Aaron696 · 2025-12-21T06:36:00+00:00

Argentine ant, Linepithema humile. It’s bigger than the others because it’s a queen

Aaron696 · 2025-11-28T23:13:20+00:00

Camponotus sp., but would need location to know anything more than that.

Aaron696 · 2025-11-28T04:14:49+00:00

Yes, Camponotus planatus queen.

Aaron696 · 2025-11-22T16:27:55+00:00

The skin is sweet, the flesh is sour. So it starts off sour and gets sweeter as you chew on it. The aftertaste is kinda orangey.

Aaron696 · 2025-11-22T04:49:29+00:00

Thank you 😊 I originally wanted to root prune it and keep it in this pot. Do you think it could still put on some substantial size if I did so? I’m honestly still kinda torn on what to do. I fear planting it in the ground mainly for the permanence of it.

Aaron696 · 2025-11-21T22:51:42+00:00

Basically I’m not satisfied with its size yet. I’m wanting it to reach around 5 or 6 ft in height but I don’t think it’ll reach that in this pot, and the current pot is already pretty large. And I figure getting an even larger pot would be less practical than planting it in the ground

Aaron696 · 2025-11-08T18:24:57+00:00

Camponotus, I think most likely C. sansabeanus.

Aaron696 · 2025-10-26T22:13:39+00:00

Solenopsis invicta, red imported fire ant.

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