How to Use carpenter ant in a Sentence

carpenter ant

noun

• David: There's a lot of rot, and our area is known for termites and carpenter ants.
  — R. Daniel Foster, latimes.com, 13 Apr. 2018
• Treat carpenter ant nests around mid-April when the nests are active.
  — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2022
• Like all ants, carpenter ant colonies start with scout ants that forage your home for the best places to eat or hang out.
  — Brie Dyas, Country Living, 3 July 2022
• Like all ants, carpenter ant colonies start with scout ants that forage your home for the best places to eat or hang out.
  — Brie Dyas, Country Living, 3 July 2022
• One of its favorite foods is the carpenter ant, nests of which the pileated drills into and plunders.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2020
• To test this idea, Solá Gracia and her colleagues took about 100 carpenter ants and created three colonies.
  — Kate Sheridan, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2018
• My home was the Summit Lake Ranger Station, a log cabin built in 1927 and slowly being carried away by carpenter ants.
  — Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
• There are probably carpenter ants living in your tree and crawling around your kitchen.
  — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2019
• Dead and rotting branches can serve as points of entry and sources of infection for such problems as melanose in citrus and carpenter ants and wood rot in shade trees and shrubs.
  — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 24 May 2018
• The idea to photograph a carpenter ant — a species that chews through wood to engineer tunnels for its nests — came by looking at the little bugs crawling in the trees in the forest near his home in Tauragė, Lithuania.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
• In the Brazilian jungle, at a height of just about 10 inches off the ground, carpenter ants can be found with their jaws permanently locked on a leaf, frozen in a never-ending dance as an alien stalk grows through their head.
  — Everyday Einstein Sabrina Stierwalt, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
• The most pervasive of these include pavement ants, Argentine ants, odorous house ants and carpenter ants.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 9 May 2018
• The termite operator in that area might be looking for wood-destroying beetles or carpenter ants.
  — Pat Kapowich, The Mercury News, 29 Aug. 2019
• For example, carpenter ants require a moist environment to build their colony, while fire ants usually set up mound nests outside.
  — Anna Halkidis, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 July 2023
• Having wood or soil piled against siding invites an infestation of carpenter ants or termites.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• When carpenter ants come into contact with a specific fungus (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis), a toxin released by the fungus takes control of the ant’s brain and compels it to attach itself to a leaf and wait for death.
  — Justin Jacobs, Indianapolis Star, 18 Oct. 2017
• In 1882, the German zoologist Friedrich Blochmann discovered the microorganisms in carpenter ant embryos.
  — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
• Robin's famous cinnamon raisin bread to beef tartare tucked under watercress and carpenter ant sauce, homemade ricotta served warm and speckled with black pepper, oysters wrapped in cabbage, slow-roasted duck over an open wood fire, and more.
  — Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2022
• There have been breakthroughs in size bioengineering, but mostly in animals and often in the wrong direction, like a 2015 study that significantly increased the size of carpenter ants by modifying their DNA.
  — Eric Spitznagel, Popular Mechanics, 21 June 2019
• Pity the poor unsuspecting carpenter ant who unwittingly becomes infected with spores scattered by a parasitic fungus in the Cordyceps genus.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
• Termite and carpenter ant colonies should be treated by professional exterminators.
  — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2022
• Enlarge / Scientists have observed wound care and selective amputation in Florida carpenter ants.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 July 2024
• After designing a miniature dueling arena—a plate with plastic dividers—the scientists chemically manipulated the odorant receptors of Florida carpenter ants from the same and neighboring colonies, either blocking or overexciting the receptors.
  — Jillian Kramer, Scientific American, 1 May 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024