Odorous house ants are about 1/8-inch long and are fast movers; they smell like rotten bananas or blue cheese when crushed. · Little black ants are 1/16-inch long; they’re slower-moving and ...

Ants range in size from the miniscule up to one inch long, and usually appear black, brown, red ... of forming so-called supercolonies that house hundreds or even thousands of queens.