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 I guess it’s the luck of the draw that I have Acrobat ants.  Fortunately, for the ants (and not so much for me) they do actually balance quite well on a tight wire - in my case, the cable wire that passes through the leafy foliage of the Dogwood tree in my front yard.

Although I don’t plan on leading a team of circus ants anytime soon, I do take a serious interest in knowing what insect pests I have harboring this spring.  Some of them can stick around, like the praying mantis’ and lacewings in my garden and the assassin bugs (cool names huh?) in my Bee Balm - these are definitely one of many “good” bugs to have on  my side of the fence - others, well, I can really do without.  And so can you.

Recent client questions posed quite a bit of interest in the identification of the most common household ant species,  I put together a couple of quick ant identification guides on two species we find often enough here in Maryland.  Please comment if you find this type of information useful - and I’ll post more like it.  And if you’re really geeky about bugs, you can also go here for a more technical look at some of our indigenous invaders.

Odorous House Ant

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Carpenter Ant

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