Morris' big-headed ant
Pheidole morrisii
Morris' big-headed ant is a small North American ant. Big-headed ants have two kinds of workers: small ones and bigger soldiers with huge heads. The soldiers use their big heads and strong jaws to help guard the nest.
Lives in
North America
What does it eat?
Like other big-headed ants, it eats small insects and also collects seeds and other food.
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)
Morris' big-headed ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
In big-headed ant colonies, the soldiers have heads that are much bigger than those of the other workers.
2
Scientists split it into two subspecies, slightly different groups of the same ant.
3
It was first described in 1886 by the Swiss ant expert Auguste Forel.
you asked
Most asked questions about Morris' big-headed ant
?Why is it called a big-headed ant?
Because its soldiers have very big heads compared with the other workers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pheidole morrisii
- Named by
- Forel, 1886
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Pheidole morrisii (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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