Description: large ant, with abdomen covered in long, yellow
to greyish hair

Size: 6-12 millimeters (.25-.5 inches)

Food: other insects, honeydew, fruit juices

Where it lives: deadwood of tree trunks, felled logs, poles, and wooden buildings

Other facts: unlike termites, carpenter ants do not eat wood,
but tunnel in it to make their nests. This is often
very destructive.