Banded sugar ant colony can be long-lived, with queens living for seven years or more. The black carpenter ant ("Camponotus pennsylvanicus") is known to adopt larvae and pupae from banded sugar ant colonies. Workers that belong to different matrilines (female ancestry) appear significantly different from each other in size. Matrilines are also said to influence caste determination within the species. The banded sugar ant is considered a household pest and is occasionally seen in houses at night, capable of damaging furniture and fittings by chewing the wood; carbon disulphide is used to treat and remove a banded sugar ant nest. These ants do
Adam Ant Is the Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter sleeve. Ant had previously expressed the intention to also release the album in the redundant cassette format. According to Ant, the front cover is "Girl in a Cocked Hat" and the back cover is "Girl in a Cocked Hat II", both of which are paintings by Mary Jane Ansell. Ant says that the girl depicted in the artwork is the gunner's daughter, and her name is Georgie "and she’s a little punk rocker". A 40 second clip of the proposed single "Hard Men, Tough Blokes" was released on Ant's official website on 16 August 2011. The song "Vince Taylor" was