You may call them "sugar ants," but that's a colloquialism for a number of types of small ants that get into your kitchen. Depending on where you live, the most common species get ...

acrobat ants, pharaoh ants, and white-footed ants. But if you have carpenter ants—you’d see wood shavings in conjunction with ant activity—call a pro. Time is not on your side in that case ...

Then the Pharaoh ant got in his way. Lots of them, actually. They were all over the place, running rampant through the biology labs and hallways and showing up in lunch bags and research preparations.