Brown droptail ant
Myrmicaria brunnea
The brown droptail ant is a shiny, chestnut-brown ant covered in long reddish-yellow hairs. Its back end curves downwards, like a tail that droops. It also has little spines sticking up from the middle of its body.
Lives in
Southern Asia, from India and Sri Lanka to Myanmar and Borneo
What does it eat?
Like many ants, it gathers different kinds of food for the whole nest to share.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Brown droptail ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The workers have no wings, but the queen and the males do. Their wings are clear like glass.
2
The males are a lighter colour than the workers, a pale chestnut yellow with dark bands on the back end.
3
In some places it is slimmer and paler and almost smooth, so it can look a little different from one land to the next.
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Most asked questions about Brown droptail ant
?Where does the brown droptail ant live?
In southern Asia, for example in India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, and as far as Borneo.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Myrmicaria brunnea
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Myrmicaria brunnea (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by No machine-readable author provided. Shyamal assumed (based on copyright claims).. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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