Flower ant
Monomorium floricola
The flower ant is a tiny ant that has travelled all over the world. Its other name, bicolored trailing ant, tells us it has two colours and walks in trails. It is very good at moving into new places.
Lives in
All over the world, especially in warm places
What does it eat?
Like most ants, it eats many kinds of small food, both sweet things and tiny bits of other animals.
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)
Flower ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It is an invasive ant, which means people carried it to many new countries by accident.
2
It belongs to a big ant group called Myrmicinae.
3
Its name floricola is Latin for something that lives on flowers.
you asked
Most asked questions about Flower ant
?Where does the flower ant live?
It now lives all over the world, because people carried it to new places.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Monomorium floricola
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania, Europe
- Also known as
- Bicolored trailing ant
Where the facts come from
- Monomorium floricola (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 Erin Prado. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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