Talk:Carpenter ant

Early comment

what about dislocating the nest ? seeking prof. help of an exterminator, for identification and possibly biologic control (hot water)? m.20050424 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 145.254.33.120 (talk) 11:00, 24 April 2005 (UTC)

Copyvio

This seems to be a copyvio from [1], a University of Kentucky entomology site. If I'm mistaken, please let me know. --Tom Allen 18:14, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

Indigenous countries

What countries do they appear in? it doesn't say.

Synonymous name of species

See Talk:Black_carpenter_ant--Wynler|Talk 20:53, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Worker... or a queen?

On the caption of the first figure, it says it depicts a worker. Deciding from the shape (and colour) of the specimen's thorax and size of it's abdomen, I'm pretty sure it's a queen, though. --Mosher81 (talk) 06:35, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Agreed and changed.--FUNKAMATIC ~talk 22:43, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Merged Camponotus_saundersi

I merged the Camponotus_saundersi article here. For more details see:

Talk:Camponotus_saundersi#Common_name.3F and Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Camponotus_saundersi

Ikip (talk) 21:55, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Inch

Carpenter ants are large (¼–1 in)

I know this is English wiki, but many people not from Britain use the larger English wiki, and I at least have no idea how large an inch would be. Could you add something like '2 cm'? Please? :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.171.7.38 (talk) 13:26, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

someone deleted the symbiont section by mistake

someone deleted the symbiont section by mistake

Can anyone verify this ?

Routine vandalism. I reverted it. Art LaPella (talk) 18:08, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

wood

i know a quite a few ant speies from the genus "camponotus", which don't live in wood. do they not count as carpenter ants? בלנק (talk) 15:40, 2 August 2011 (UTC)

Behavior Section

I edited the behavior section. The section on relatedness needs to be cited.Kaijones5245 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaijones5245 (talk • contribs) 19:02, 5 October 2013 (UTC)

Undergraduate Peer Review (Washington University in St. Louis). The behavior section is highly informative, and I only made a few grammatical corrections., I would suggest adding citations for both the relatedness section and kin altruism section in order to elevate this article to “Good Article” status. Lastly, perhaps adding more information to the pheromones section would be helpful, such as a brief commentary on connections of genotype upon pheromones in the carpenter ant (how do genetic mutations affect pheromone levels and thereby influence social interactions between the workers, for instance). Adding additional examples in which these ants display kin altruism would be helpful as well. Overall, very strong work on this section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gschalet (talk • contribs) 01:50, 11 October 2013 (UTC)--Gschalet (talk) 02:06, 11 October 2013 (UTC)gschalet

The sections on "Relatedness", "Kin recognition", "Kin altruism", "Pheromones", and "Social immunity", while interesting, have a great deal of general information that is out of place here. Readers have to plow through a lot of exposition, then they find out there is nothing specific to carpenter ants in the section. I'd suggest that, except for "unusual" characteristics that are specific to a relatively few species of ants like oligogyny, that most of the rest be edited down to a few sentences. The stuff that applies to all social insects could be moved to Social insect if desired. Readers can go to the links if they want detailed explanations of kin altruism, kin recognition, and pheromones; that's what those article are for. --Chetvorno^TALK 00:24, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Kin Recognition, Kin Altruism, Relatedness

I have both begun and added to the above three sections. I include descriptions of the larger concepts and how they apply to the carpenter ant. This information includes references. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DC9001 (talk • contribs) 16:18, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

holzschaden/"wood damage"

the last picture is titled "Wood damage by C. herculeanus" (when clicked, the german title "holzschaden" appears). may i suggest a less 'anthropomorphic' picture description, such as (e.g.) "Partial cross section of a C. herculeanus nest"? --96.63.2.100 (talk) 01:15, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

But carpenter ants are a major cause of structural wood damage, and that is probably the main interest for a good many readers coming to this page. This is the only picture of structural lumber that has been damaged by carpenter ants in the article; the description in the picture's summary says: "Wood truss destroyed by carpenter ants". It is near the "Carpenter ants as pests" section. I think the caption is accurate and appropriate. --Chetvorno^TALK 02:02, 9 July 2014 (UTC)

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A carpenter ant (Camponotus sp.) worker drinking water, as found in Kibaha, Tanzania. Ants of this genus are indigenous to many forested parts of the world and build nests inside wood, chewing out galleries with their mandibles. These foragers, unlike termites, do not feed on the wood; rather, they eat parts of dead insects or substances derived from other insects.Photograph: Muhammad Mahdi Karim

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