Ants
Pavement, odorous house and Pharaoh ants: small, organized, and following scent trails straight to your food.
Where they come from
Pavement ants came from Europe on ships. Odorous house ants are native. Pharaoh ants are from Asia.
Where they thrive
Under sidewalks and slabs, in wall voids, near kitchens, sugar, grease and water.
How they behave
Scouts lay scent trails for the colony. Spraying Pharaoh ants makes the colony split in several.
In New York City
A new species nicknamed the 'ManhattAnt' was found in Broadway medians in 2012.
Did you know?
Bugs in Manhattan medians eat about 60,000 hot dogs' worth of food waste a year.
Related pests
German Cockroaches
The roach that lives indoors, breeds fastest, and causes most commercial kitchen infestations.
Read more →American Roaches
The big reddish roach New Yorkers call a palmetto bug, coming up from drains and basements on hot nights.
Read more →Waterbugs
What New Yorkers call a waterbug is almost always the Oriental cockroach, a dark roach that loves damp basements.
Read more →Think you have Ants?
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