Little Black Ant
The Little Black Ant is common throughout the world. It gets its name from its jet-black color and its small size. Worker ants are tiny, only about 1/16th of an inch long! Queen ants are bigger at about 1/8th of an inch.
In the folklore of the Isleta Puebloans - a community of the northernmost Chihuahuan Desert and cultural descendents of the Anasazi Puebloan tradition - Big Red Ants and Little Black Ants rescued Corn-stalk Young Man from a bewitched tree so that he ...
House pests among the North American ants include the yellowish pharaoh ant, the little black ant, the odorous house ant, the Argentine ant of warm climates, and the black carpenter ant. Carpenter ants tunnel in wood but do not feed on it.
 See also: Ant
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