Central European bicolored ant
The Central European bicolored ant is a small ant with two colours: a reddish middle and a brown head and tail end. At home in Europe it is quite ordinary. But it travelled to New York, where people now call it the ManhattAnt.
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Fun facts
A queen can live for 30 years, but a worker ant lives at most three years.
In New York it lives on the higher floors of tall buildings.
It was first found in New York in 2011 and spreads about one mile further every year.
Sometimes several queens team up to start a new nest together.
Most asked questions about Central European bicolored ant
?What is the ManhattAnt?
It is the nickname for this ant in New York, where it arrived from Europe and spread quickly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lasius emarginatus
- Named by
- Olivier, 1792
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- ManhattAnt
Where the facts come from
- Lasius emarginatus (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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