There are a wide array of other ants besides carpenter ants, winter ants and fire ants – Massachusetts has plenty. Meet the leafcutter, house ant, odorous house ant, pavement and field ant and learn ...

When an insect has the nick-name of "odorous house ant," you know it's smelly. This ant's scent has been described as blue cheese, rancid butter, or cleaning solution. Inquiring science minds ...

These ants, also known as coconut ants, are normally quite inconspicuous, mostly living in hollow acorn and hickory nut shells in the forest and active only during warm times from spring to fall.

But if you crush a member of the ant species Tapinoma sessile,you might catch a whiff of a strange smell—a smell that reminds some people of blue cheese, rancid butter or rotten coconut.

Discovering ants in and around areas where food debris is present. Smelling a coconut odor where ants have been crushed. Sugar ants are the most common type of ant found in homes. As their name ...

one of the most common ants in the country. And for more than 50 years they've been described as smelling like rotten coconut. But Clint Penick thinks they smell like blue cheese. And he can prove ...

Eliene Augenbraun is a multimedia science producer, formerly Nature Research's Multimedia Managing Editor and Scientific American's senior video producer. Before that, she founded and ran ...

What do some ants, rotten coconut, and blue cheese have in common? They all share a pungent scent. Adrian Smith Ants have strong odors. Crush one and you’ll detect notes of citrus, vinegar ...

Odorous house ants (Tapinoma sessile) have long been regarded as smelling like coconut, or sometimes like rotten butter. But when Penick sniffed one for the first time, he was hit by the scent of ...

Penick and Smith then analyzed the chemical compounds responsible for the scents of the two substances—plus fresh coconut—and compared them to those of house ants. The rotten coconut ...

they are known to emit a banana-oil smell that some describe like a coconut. If you don’t want to call in professionals just yet, try these home remedies that involve capitalizing on the ants ...