Tawny collared ant
Aphaenogaster fulva
The tawny collared ant is an ant from North America. Like all ants, it lives in a big family with a queen who lays the eggs and many workers who do the jobs. It is one of the many ants that busy themselves on the forest floor.
Lives in
North America
What does it eat?
Like many ants, it eats small insects and also bits of plants.
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)
Tawny collared 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 was first described by a scientist named Roger in 1863.
2
Scientists split it into two kinds, called subspecies. One of them is named azteca.
3
Its workers are all sisters, the daughters of the same queen.
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Most asked questions about Tawny collared ant
?Where does the tawny collared ant live?
In North America.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aphaenogaster fulva
- Named by
- Roger, 1863
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Aphaenogaster fulva (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 Katja Schulz from Washington, D. C., USA. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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