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Behavior
- Feed on both living and dead insects
- Inside, feed on sweets, fats, and proteins
- Travel in set trails along carpets, countertops, cabinets, floors,
and baseboards
- Found in places with moisture
- May use electrical wires and plumbing pipes to travel from room
to room
- Colonies very mobile; workers, along with larvae, pupae, and
even a few queens, may move to new locations if disturbed or if
colony becomes too large
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Nest
type and size
- Nest in household structures such as wall and cabinet voids,
behind baseboards, behind refrigerator insulation, inside hollow
curtain rods, or in the folds of sheets, clothes, or paper
- Outdoors nest in debris or cracks and crevices
- Colonies with up to 300,000 workers
with multiple queens
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