Habitat/range: Black garden ants (Lasius niger ... to keep the aphids close, ants may bite off their wings. The ants even protect their aphid herds from rustlers—other insect predators.

Yes, black ants can bite, but their bites are usually so small that you may not even notice. “Almost all ants will bite as a defence mechanism,” Pereira says, though most small ants don’t ...

Seeing a large black ... ants can be identified by their cinched waist which helps give them a segmented body consisting of ...

This damage adds up: From 1930 to 2021, invasive ants caused an estimated $51 billion in economic losses. Ants range in size from the miniscule up to one inch long, and usually appear black ...