Bent-spined acorn ant
Temnothorax curvispinosus
The bent-spined acorn ant is a tiny ant that can fit its whole family inside an acorn. It lives in forests in the eastern United States. It builds its nest in hollow acorns, little holes in plants, in the soil or under rocks.
Lives in
Eastern United States, in forests, parks and towns
What does it eat?
Like most small ants, it collects bits of food it finds on the forest floor.
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)
Bent-spined acorn ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
A whole colony can live inside one hollowed out acorn.
2
It lives both in the countryside and in cities.
3
City ants have learned to cope with heat better than country ants, because cities are warmer.
you asked
Most asked questions about Bent-spined acorn ant
?Why is it called the acorn ant?
Because it can live inside hollow acorns.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Temnothorax curvispinosus
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Acorn ant
Where the facts come from
- Temnothorax curvispinosus (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 AntWeb.org. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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