Behavior
- Feed on grease and greasy foods, proteins, dead insects, and
even dead rodents; may sometimes feed on sweets
- Often steal food and ant larvae from nests of other ants
- Travel in set trails inside cabinets, on walls, along baseboards,
and along branches of trees and shrubs
- May travel from one room to another by traveling on electrical
wires; may be seen in electrical outlets.
- Small enough to forage into packaged foods
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Nest
type and size
- Nest outdoors in soil under rocks or in decaying wood
- Indoors, colonies found in cabinet or wall voids or behind
baseboards
- Individual colonies small; may have
multiple queens
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