Odorous house ants are easily identifiable by - you guessed it - their smell. Here's what to look out for if you suspect they ...

Odorous house ants have become among the leading ant pest in the Pacific Northwest over the past 10 to 15 years, experts say, as multiqueen super colonies expand and become increasingly ...

The ants invading homes like Cage’s around town are odorous house ants, pests that some researchers say are making a run at becoming the Midwest’s public enemy No. 1 among ants in urban and ...

In sniff tests, 38% of people thought crushed odorous house ants smelled like Blue Cheese. Penick & Smith, 2015. About 38 percent of ant-sniffers thought they smelled like blue cheese, with rotten ...

The odorous house ant may have evolved for life in some of the tightest spots in the forest, but once it moves into our comparatively roomy buildings and cities, its colonies explode in size ...

Odorous house ants live in hollow acorn shells in the forest. They're called odorous because they have a coconut- or rum-like smell when crushed.

The major component of odorous house ant scent is called 6-methyl-5-hepten-2-one. And it belongs to the same class of chemicals found in blue cheese smell, called methyl ketones. No methyl ketones ...

CITY ANT, COUNTRY ANT A colony of odorous house ants living in Indiana forests can fit into an acorn. But when the species goes to town, it goes mega-metropolitan. G.

Odorous house ants live in hollow acorn shells in the forest. They're called odorous because they have a coconut- or rum-like smell when crushed. They're considered one of the most common house ants.