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

REFERENCES:

Bull, E. L., R. C. Beckwith and R. S. Holthausen. 1992. Arthropod Diet of Pileated Woodpeckers in Northeastern Oregon. Northwest Naturalist 73:42–45.

Ehrlich, P.R., D. S. Dobkin and D. Wheye. 1986. The Adaptive Significance of Anting.  Auk 103: 835.

Hansen, L. D. and R. D. Akre. 1990. Biology of Carpenter Ants.Pages 274–280 in R. Vander Meer, K. Jaffe and A. Cedeno [eds.], Applied Myrmecology: A World Perspective.Westview, Boulder, CO.

Holldobler, B. and E. O. Wilson. 1990. The Ants. Belknap, Cambridge, MA.

Holldobler, B. and E. O. Wilson. 1994. Journey to the Ants. Belknap, Cambridge, MA.

Klotz, J. H. and B. L. Reid.1992. The Use of Spatial Cues for Structural Guidelines in Tapinoma sessile andCamponotus pennsylvanicus. Journal ofInsect Behavior 5: 71–82.

Klotz, J. H. and B. L. Reid.1993. Nocturnal Orientation in the Black Carpenter Ant Camponotus pennsylvanicus (DeGeer) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Insectes Sociale 40: 95–106.