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Lois These are subterranean ants. If you had the warm spell when you sent this in, like we had here in Iowa, then these ants maybe coming in as a result. These subterranean ants are quite harmless the rest of the year, and are a brief nuisance when they do enter houses, usually through basements. The winged forms naturally hang out in the cool autumn soil, and fly when the ground thoroughly warms during “Indian summer”. They sense the heat of the building through the soil, and move toward it. You do not need to "control" them as they will go away with the warm weather, since the bulk of the colony lives away from the building in the soil. Did you notice a lemony smell when they are around? If so, it is the citronella ants.

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They look like winged red ants that were in the process of swarming to a new nest.

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