From this photo, it's hard to ID this lady online. You could be right but she could be a Formica (Field ant). This seems much more likely if it looks similar to what you're seeing out on sidewalks. Pavement ants are smaller, usually about half the size of carpenter ants and Formica.
I would agree that most likely they are in your house searching for water right now, given that you're finding them near sinks. If you are only finding a couple at a time, they're probably just individual foragers and not a colony that has set up a nest.
You might have an easier time with identification if you trap a worker and then freeze her to euthanize her.
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Date: 2024-May-16, Thursday 11:43 pm (UTC)https://extension.umn.edu/insects-infest-homes/ants#field-ant-42363
From this photo, it's hard to ID this lady online. You could be right but she could be a Formica (Field ant). This seems much more likely if it looks similar to what you're seeing out on sidewalks. Pavement ants are smaller, usually about half the size of carpenter ants and Formica.
I would agree that most likely they are in your house searching for water right now, given that you're finding them near sinks. If you are only finding a couple at a time, they're probably just individual foragers and not a colony that has set up a nest.
You might have an easier time with identification if you trap a worker and then freeze her to euthanize her.