Carpenter ants (Camponotus americanus)

Camponotus americanus · Camponotus

Carpenter ants (Camponotus americanus). Recorded flying from April through June. Reddish-orange head, reddish-orange mesosoma, black gaster. Reddish-orange head and mesosoma sharply contrasting with a black gaster. Recorded near 80 of the 190 locations Dealate tracks.

When do carpenter ants fly?

Recorded flying from April through June.

Flight calendar

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Queen appearance

Reddish-orange head, reddish-orange mesosoma, black gaster. Reddish-orange head and mesosoma sharply contrasting with a black gaster.

slow, deliberate, unhurried gait

Founding care

Fully claustral: seal her in a test tube setup, somewhere dark and undisturbed. She raises the first brood on her own wing muscles and needs no food or opening until the first workers appear.

Needs a winter diapause: a cool, dark rest period each year.

Diet: Insects, meat, sugar water, honey etc.

Intermediate · Queen ~18 mm

Habitat

Dead wood · also under bark · typical for this genus

Check logs, stumps and dead branches for landed queens. Look over dead trunks for queens exploring the bark.

Recorded near

Kingston Ottawa, Gatineau, Nepean, Gloucester, Orléans, Ottawa South Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton, Etobicoke, Markham, Vaughan, Kitchener, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Burlington, Oshawa, Guelph, Whitby, Milton, Cambridge, Ajax, Thornhill, Waterloo, Brantford Albany Allentown Ann Arbor Atlanta, Athens, South Fulton, Sandy Springs Austin, Round Rock Baton Rouge Beaumont Birmingham Boston, South Boston, Worcester, Providence, Lowell, Cambridge, Manchester, New Bedford Cedar Rapids Charlotte Chattanooga, East Chattanooga Chicago, Aurora, Joliet, Naperville, Elgin Cleveland, Akron College Station Columbia, MO Columbia, SC Columbus, GA Columbus, OH Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Plano, Garland, Irving, Grand Prairie, McKinney, Frisco, Mesquite, Carrollton, Denton, Richardson, Lewisville Davenport Dayton Des Moines Fayetteville Fort Wayne Grand Rapids Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point Houston, Cypress, Pasadena, Pearland Huntsville Indianapolis Jackson Kansas City, Overland Park, Olathe, Independence, East Independence Knoxville Lexington, Lexington-Fayette Lincoln Little Rock Louisville Madison Meads Milwaukee Minneapolis, Saint Paul Montgomery Nashville, Clarksville, Murfreesboro New South Memphis, Memphis New York City, Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, Staten Island, Newark, Jersey City, Upper West Side, Jamaica, Yonkers, East Flatbush, East New York, Washington Heights, Astoria, Borough Park, Paterson, Bridgeport, Elizabeth, Stamford, Sunset Park, Sheepshead Bay, North Stamford, Harlem, East Harlem, Elmhurst, Bushwick, Gravesend, Corona, Edison Oklahoma City, Norman Omaha Peoria, North Peoria Philadelphia Phoenix, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Scottsdale, Maryvale, Peoria, Tempe, Deer Valley, Tempe Junction, Surprise, Alhambra Pittsburgh Raleigh, West Raleigh, Durham, Cary Richmond Roanoke Rochester, MN Rochester, NY Rockford Savannah Shreveport Sioux Falls South Bend Springfield, IL Springfield, MA, New Haven, Hartford, Waterbury Springfield, MO St. Louis Syracuse Tallahassee Topeka Tulsa, Broken Arrow Tuscaloosa Tyler Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Newport News, East Hampton, Hampton Waco Washington, Baltimore, Arlington, Alexandria Wichita Wichita Falls Wilmington

More Camponotus species

See carpenter ants where you live

Dealate scores the day's best window, a rolling 7-day outlook, and a live forecast map for whichever species fly near you. Every recurring plan starts with a free 7-day trial.

Start a free 7-day trial →

← Every species we forecast How the forecast works →