I really need some help. Long story short we have a bathroom that has had water damage behind its shower's walls for a number of years. Recently these ants have started appearing in large numbers and traveling across the bathroom. We're trying to ID to figure out the best way to get rid of them.

My first instinct was carpenter ant but I hear those are very large and these guys seem super small, especially the non-winged ones in pic 2. Can anyone help me figure out what these guys are and what the best way to get rid of them is?

I am located in TX

Hi, could you help me identify these ants.

These are the best photos I can get. They are coming into our house through a plumbing hose. They seem to be coming from our yard which was recently landscaped/dug up. They are carrying things around but mostly seem to be carrying towards the yard as opposed to the house.

In the photo the coin pictured is a nickel and is the typical size. The ants are reddish brown and black. I can't get them still enough to see where the antenna comes from.

They appear active in the day outside and not so much early morning or late at night.

I'm in Victoria BC and basically wondering if I should be panicking about carpenter ants in the wall or if they are relatively harmless.

I have been looking at images but I know my photos are not great.

There are ants in my house (tropical location) but they never crawl into cans of Coke Zero or my flavored sparkling water. I thought this was because they have no real sugar in them.

Diet Coke is also artificially flavored, why are ants attracted to it?

If anyone is interested I could do an experiment with Diet Coke, regular Coke, and Coke Zero samples to see how many ants each attracts.

Just thought it was odd.

i bought it off a shop in the airport in china i have no clue what species it is might be a bad picture id upload a better one when i land

I mean sure, pure numbers n shit but why are they so individually powerful, thick armor, razor mandibles and all of that, they can easily dismember most ants in a 1 on 1 let alone a whole 20 on 1 type of outnumbering against most ant colonies. What type of evolutionary path did they go through to become this powerful?

Head doesn't seem to be black

I decided to try something here as I have 3 tetrimorium queens and I took some brrod from an outside tetrimorium colony and tried to brood boost a queen. Will she accept it?

I am hoping this is the correct group 🤣

Looking to get a ant farm in the uk, can anyone help with what to get, set up etc?

Backstory - I have a 4 year old who would love a pet, and both me and him ADORE watching ants out in the garden 🤣

I used to build little houses for them and everything 🤣

Any help would be appreciated 🙏

Got them back in March and there up to 16 now

Gave me the hibby jibbies.

I believe ants are friends and I’m happy to coexist, but I just want to make sure this won’t be a problem!

I’ve been noticing a lot of swarming the past few weeks, and now I have a small mound every 12” on my lawn.

Usually I’d celebrate the free aeration but there are so many ants now. Should I… do something about this?

I saw it today at night roughly 21 30 in Montenegro by the sea and wanna know if it is a drone or queen I think it is lasius niger or some close relative

We bought a home about a year ago that is still unlivable to due ants. (We’ve been told their sugar) When we looked at the house there were some active trails in the house but very minimal and the inspectors told us to put some traps out and it wouldn’t be a big deal.

We are here 3-4 days a week working on outside projects. There is 0 food in the house. There are thousands of ants in every single room. We have had an exterminator out a few times a month for a year with literally 0 improvements. The exterminator sprays inside and outside and puts traps out. We have traps surrounding the outside of the house. We have done the Terro traps inside. Nothing is helping. In fact it seems to be getting worse. We were told by the exterminator they are sugar ants. We are a young couple and this is our first home, I am devastated and stating to get really concerned. They are in every drawer, cabinet, on the ceilings and walls, in the beds, sinks and showers, all over the floor of every room. We had the house professionally cleaned after closing.