I found this in my backyard. A million ants and at least 50% of them have wings. My dogs seemed super interested in that area earlier and were digging in the dirt and now there’s a ton of ants that came out of the ground there. Also some of them are just perched at the top of grass blades?

Also there’s even more giant patches of them than I showed in the video

Over the last two days I’ve seen 2. Tonight, I’ve killed 10. Majority of them are flying.

They appear to be coming through the vents from my attic. I am guessing because of all the leaves that came down they are finding their way through the cracks. I got a new roof and gutters this year and I’m guessing it all needs to be sealed proper.

Should I call an exterminator? Any tips for where to start?

Can someone name them species?

I have a bad ant infestation and now they are swarming but im broke af what are some cheap ways to get rid of this. Also why so huge I live in nz and I have never seen ants like this or delt with an ant problem before

Ontario 4:45pm October 12th

I must head home to get retrieval gear. Would it be worth coming back to potentially get a Queen? Now, my potential queen of these species still has her wings on. I'm thinking she may or may not have mated.

Update: I found a queen that is closer in colour to the drones, and much larger of course. However, I can only post 1 image per post for whatever reason.

Tengo 9 hormigas reinas pheidole 8 en tubos de ensayo y está la tengo en un vaso de vidrio que es la que más huevos está poniendo y está en la cocina en un cajón
Hay algo que estoy haciendo mal ? De hecho una hormiga en el tubo de ensayo tiene los huevos dispersos y esas hormigas están en un lugar más oscuro y menos ruidoso

Me he encontrado está hormiga caminando cerca del río, es una zona tropical, tenía la idea de que fuera una clase de poreninae pero no tengo claro de qué género.

• Disculpen la mala calidad de las fotografías.

I live in southern california and theres those red fire ants everywhere out here. Well after the rain we've been getting ive seen this one specific ant patrolling the same patch of dirt for two days alongside a couple of the normal red/fire ants and they're smaller then im use to seeing but this one is huge. Is it a queen? Why is its head black? Instead of all red like the others. Its hanging out with smaller red harvester ants in the sand if that helps.

Queen + 1worker. Any tips on how best to them appreciated.

So I noticed in my yard these ants were very active in one particular spot. I then noticed what I believe is a queen ant struggling to climb. Are the worker ants helping her climb or attacking her?

Caught this queen back in July in placer county California. Mid day on a hot day she was found on the ground. She’s recently had her first workers hatch an was wondering what her species is. ChatGPT said Camponotus modoc. But I figured I would ask people to just to double check. Let me know if you need more information on them

A sudden increase in ants after baiting does not always mean the treatment failed. New research from the University of California, Riverside shows that poisoned Argentine ants may act strangely before they die.

The study, from the lab of UCR entomology professor Dong Hwan Choe, examined how invasive Argentine ants respond to two common bait toxicants.

The team found that thiamethoxam and boric acid both kill many worker ants, but they change colony behavior in very different ways. One sends ants roaming outside the nest. The other drives them inward, where they cluster tightly.