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How to Manage Pests

Key to Identifying Common Household Ants


Click on the illustration that best resembles your ant

From 2-segmented club on a 10-segmented antenna

Ant with small eyes
  
Ant with large eyes
Very small eyes; worker ants are all the same size, tiny, 1/32-inch long; yellow to light brown in color   Large eyes; worker ants are variable in size (polymorphic), 1/16- to 1/4-inch long; reddish to orange-brown in color with some black markings on the abdomen

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