Deceptive carpenter ant
Camponotus decipiens
Name means: “deceiving or tricking, in Latin”
The deceptive carpenter ant is a small ant from North America with a shiny black back end. Carpenter ants make their homes in wood, and this one likes to move into branches, logs and old stumps.
Lives in
The eastern and central United States and north-eastern Mexico
Length
3 to 7.5 mm (0.12 to 0.3 in)
What does it eat?
Like other carpenter ants, it likes sweet juices and also eats small insects.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 9.7 seconds
How big is Deceptive carpenter ant compared to YOU?
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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)
Deceptive carpenter ant about 0.37 km/h (0.23 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Most of its colonies are small, with fewer than 100 workers, but some grow to several hundred.
2
Its workers are 3 to 7.5 millimetres long. The biggest carpenter ants can be twice as long.
3
Sometimes it nests inside wooden posts and even in houses.
4
You are most likely to spot it in spring and autumn.
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Most asked questions about Deceptive carpenter ant
?Where does the deceptive carpenter ant live?
In the eastern and central United States and north-eastern Mexico.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus decipiens
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Camponotus decipiens (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 April Nobile. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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