Silky field ant
Formica subsericea
The silky field ant is a dark ant from North America. Its workers are super fast runners, but also very shy. If you get close, they quickly hurry away.
Lives in
The eastern United States and Canada
What does it eat?
Like its ant cousins, it eats sweet liquids and small insects.
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)
Silky field ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Another kind of ant sometimes raids its nests and makes its workers do the work in their own colony.
2
Young queens and males fly out to find mates in July or August.
3
The larvae of a special fly live inside its nests.
4
People often mix it up with a very similar ant.
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Most asked questions about Silky field ant
?Where does the silky field ant live?
In the eastern United States and Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Formica subsericea
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Black field ant
Where the facts come from
- Formica subsericea (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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