Eastern Dracula ant
The eastern Dracula ant is a small reddish-brown ant from North America. It is also called the vampire ant. It lives hidden in damp soil and under logs, so even grown-ups who study ants find it hard to spot.
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Its nest is very small. Often only a few ants live together, and never more than about sixty.
It makes its home in soil under stones, under rotting logs or at the bottom of trees.
It is one of only three ants of its kind that live in North America.
It lives from the southern and eastern United States all the way west to California and north to Canada.
Most asked questions about Eastern Dracula ant
?How big is the eastern Dracula ant?
It is about 4.5 to 6 millimetres long, so only a few could fit on your fingernail.
?Where does the vampire ant live?
In damp woods in North America, in the soil, in fallen leaves and under rocks and logs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stigmatomma pallipes
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Vampire ant
Where the facts come from
- Stigmatomma pallipes (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 Renato Robert. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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