Volume 45, Number 4,
July 1999: Carpenter Ants

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the authors

IN THIS ISSUE

Section 1:
- introduction
- what is a carpenter ant?

Section 2:
- life cycle
- colony size

Section 3:
- how carpenter ants find their way around

Section 4:
- feeding habits
- optimizing feeding
- territorial ants go to war
- avoiding war

Section 5:
- why active at night?
- ecological value of carpenter ants

Section 6:
- surviving winter
- destroying wood
- contrast between termites and carpenter ants

- References

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Carpenter Ants
by John H. Klotz, Laurel D. Hansen, Byron L. Reid and Stephen A. Klotz

About the Authors

John H. Klotz is an assistant professor of entomology in the Department of Entomology, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521.

Laurel  D. Hansen teaches at Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane, WA 99224 and co-authored the Kansas School Naturalist on “Collection and Maintenance of Ants” Vol.  41, No. 1.

Byron L. Reid is an entomologist and lives at 5311 Oakview, Shawnee, KS 66216.

Stephen A. Klotz provided all artwork and is Chief, Section of InfectiousDiseases, Kansas City Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Kansas City, MO 64218.