Cherry acrobat ant
Crematogaster cerasi
The cherry acrobat ant is a small ant that is all one colour. It has a few long hairs on its shoulders and back, and it eats almost anything. Lots of animals like to eat it too.
Lives in
North America
What does it eat?
It eats dead bugs, catches smaller insects and also sips nectar from flowers.
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)
Cherry acrobat 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 has only 3 to 5 long hairs on its shoulders and on its back, fewer than its close cousins.
2
Spiders, beetles, birds and small rodents all hunt it.
3
Now and then even black bears eat these ants.
4
Its whole body is just one colour.
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Most asked questions about Cherry acrobat ant
?What does the cherry acrobat ant eat?
Almost anything: dead bugs, small insects and nectar from flowers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Crematogaster cerasi
- Named by
- Fitch, 1855
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Crematogaster cerasi (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 April Nobile. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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