Small black or garden ant

Latin: Acanthomyops niger, lasius niger

Preferred common name: Common black ant

Crumbling wood as habitat for common black ants — Tender woodwork that has served as part of a nest of black garden ants. The surface gets a typically sanded structure

Several of the ants which otherwise live in the ground will occasionally build their nests in damp timber in the house, and these include the garden ant.

They will only start to gnaw their way into timber which has already been subject to damp and has been broken down by fungi and possibly by the attacks of beetle larvae. On this ant see also page 81.

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Henri Mourier

Biologist at Statens Skadedyrslaboratorium

Author of:
"Pests in House and Home"
"Bed Bugs - Bites, Stings and Itches"
"Food Pests"
"Husets dyreliv" (Insects Around the House - Only danish)
"Skadedyr i træ" (Timber Pests - Only danish)
"Stuefluen" (Common Housefly - Only danish)