Ashmead's acrobat ant
Ashmead's acrobat ant is a tree ant from the southeastern United States. It almost never comes down to the ground. It lives and hunts high up in treetops and on climbing vines.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It moves into old tunnels in pine bark that caterpillars have chewed out, instead of digging its own home.
In the pine forests of northern Florida it is the boss ant of the treetops.
Its colonies live in most of the pine trees in that area.
It is one of eleven acrobat ant kinds that come from eastern North America.
Most asked questions about Ashmead's acrobat ant
?Where do acrobat ants live?
This one lives high up in trees, especially pine trees, in tunnels in the bark.
?What does Ashmead's acrobat ant eat?
It finds its food up in the trees and even raids wasp nests to eat the wasp babies.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Crematogaster ashmeadi
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Acrobat ant
Where the facts come from
- Crematogaster ashmeadi (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 unknown author. CC-BY-SA-3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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