Hawaiian carpenter ant
Camponotus variegatus
The Hawaiian carpenter ant is a carpenter ant that lives in many warm places. It is found in Hawaii, but also across southern Asia and on Pacific islands. It is not fussy about food at all.
Lives in
Hawaii, Pacific islands and southern Asia, often near houses
What does it eat?
It eats small insects and sweet honeydew, and it will also help itself to most foods from the kitchen cupboard.
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)
Hawaiian carpenter ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Scientists have split it into fifteen subspecies, living from Sri Lanka and India to New Guinea and Hawaii.
2
It can sneak into kitchens and eat sugar, bread and other pantry food.
3
Carpenter ants got their name because many of them make their nests in wood.
4
One subspecies has even been found as far away as Turkey.
you asked
Most asked questions about Hawaiian carpenter ant
?What does the Hawaiian carpenter ant eat?
Small insects, honeydew and most kinds of food from the kitchen.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus variegatus
- Named by
- Smith, 1858
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Camponotus variegatus (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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