Hairy sugar ant
The hairy sugar ant is a dark grey to black ant from Africa. Its body is covered in lots of stiff, snow-white hairs, so it looks a bit frosty. It is one of the smaller kinds of sugar ant.
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Fun facts
It lives in lots of places: gardens, grassland, savanna, woodland and fynbos, a kind of South African bushland.
It even lives at the seashore, in the zone that the tide covers and uncovers.
It stays away from very dry places.
Its feelers and feet are a rusty red colour.
Scientists split it into three subspecies, and one of them lives on Madagascar.
Most asked questions about Hairy sugar ant
?Where does the hairy sugar ant live?
In eastern and southern Africa, from Kenya down to South Africa, and on Madagascar.
?Why is it called the hairy sugar ant?
Because its body is covered in stiff, snow-white hairs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus niveosetosus
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Africa
Where the facts come from
- Camponotus niveosetosus (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 Alex Wild. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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