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

Carpenter Ants Index of Images

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Front Cover	Authors
Figure 1	Figure 2
Figure 3	Figure 4
Figure 5	Figure 6
Figure 7	Figure 8
Figure 9	Figure 10
Figure 11	Figure 12
Termites	Ants