Black Field Ants in a Lawn

Field ants are large ants (3/8 inch), often mistaken for Carpenter ants. Field ants are robust and can be brown, tan, reddish, or red and black in color. Field ants are rarely found indoors, they nest in the soil. In open fields, they may make mounds. In lawns, the nests have a low profile, rarely reaching above the top of the grass. Field ants displace a lot of displaced soil.

**The ant nest in this clip covers an area of about 2 ft in a lawn and there are lots of things going on. Ants carrying plant materials, birds in the background (you can easily hear the chiminey swifts) and a small spiderling makes its debut at about 0:03:37.30

**For more information on field ants and their management, visit http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/ants/fieldant.shtml

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• bug
• ant
• field ant
• carpenter ant
• insect
• pest
• ant hill
• ant mound
• black ant
• UNL Extension
• Lancaster County

[muskokatone]

lol - I see some "professional" videos on you tube showing how to kill carpenter ants, and then showing field ants - they eve nwalk a little different - I find them alot under the granite slab walkways here in Ontario.