Woodland fuzzy ant
Lasius americanus
The woodland fuzzy ant is a small dusty brown ant with pale, almost see-through legs. It makes its home in woods, often under rotting wood or inside trees. Lots of these ants live and work together in one big family.
Lives in
Southern Canada and the eastern United States, in woods and forests
What does it eat?
Like many ants, it eats lots of different small foods it finds around its nest.
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)
Woodland fuzzy ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its home is usually under rotting wood or in a tree.
2
For a long time scientists thought it was the same as other ants. It only got its own name as a separate species in 2018.
3
Its feelers have no stiff hairs sticking out, which helps experts tell it apart from its cousins.
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Most asked questions about Woodland fuzzy ant
?Where does the woodland fuzzy ant live?
In woods in southern Canada and the eastern United States, often under rotting wood.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lasius americanus
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Lasius americanus (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 Emmett Collins-Sussman. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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