Shimmering golden sugar ant
Camponotus sericeiventris
The shimmering golden sugar ant is a big carpenter ant from Central and South America. As its name says, it shimmers with a golden shine. It is so special that it has a little group all to itself.
Lives in
Large parts of Central and South America
What does it eat?
Like other carpenter ants, it eats sweet juices and small insects.
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)
Shimmering golden sugar 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 the only species in its own small group of carpenter ants.
2
Scientists have described five different forms of it in different places.
3
It is a carpenter ant, a kind of ant related to the black carpenter ants of Europe.
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Most asked questions about Shimmering golden sugar ant
?Where does the shimmering golden sugar ant live?
In large parts of Central and South America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus sericeiventris
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Camponotus sericeiventris (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 Diego Luiz. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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