It could also be located in your house. The worker caste ants are devoted to a variety of activities such as nest construction, reapri and defense, foraging for food, and feeding and caring for larvae and the queen. Workers vary in size and appearance within a species, so size is usually not a good characteristic for identification. They live for approximately one year. When the colony has matured, carpenter ants establish new colonies by producing swarms of winged male and female reproductives.
Many people first become aware that they have ants when the ants initiate the reproductive flight.
More research is needed to verify the efficacy of these baits, but results to date are encouraging. References and Further Reading Klass, C. and D. Karasevicz. Miscellaneous Bulletin S74. Lifton, B. 1991. Olkowski, H. and W. Olkowski.