These ants are very small;
the one-sixteenth inch long workers are yellow to light brown to red.
The petiole has two nodes. The nest site is usually in a hard to reach
location. Common nesting sites include warm wall voids, sub floor areas,
wall sockets, attics, cracks, crevices, behind baseboards and in
furniture. These ants do not swarm. Females mate in the nest, and new
colonies are formed by budding. This means part of the original colony
moves new masses with a young queen to a new nesting site. Mating may
occur in the nest at any time during the year. Pharaoh ants seem to
prefer meat or grease but will eat almost anything, including insects,
sugar syrups, fruit juices, jellies and cakes.
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