Prairie mound ant
Formica montana
The prairie mound ant is a North American ant. It belongs to the same big group as the wood ants and field ants. Its colonies are special because they often have lots of queens.
Lives in
North America, on the prairies
What does it eat?
Like its wood ant cousins, it collects many kinds of food, both small insects and sweet things.
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)
Prairie mound ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
One colony can have as many as 20 queens.
2
It belongs to the genus Formica, which includes wood ants, mound ants and field ants.
3
Its name tells you where to look for it: on the prairie, the wide grassy plains of North America.
you asked
Most asked questions about Prairie mound ant
?How many queens does a prairie mound ant colony have?
Often many. One colony can have as many as 20 queens.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Formica montana
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Formica montana (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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