Variable big-headed ant
Pheidole bicarinata
The variable big-headed ant is a small ant from the United States. Some of its workers have extra-big heads. It is not a fussy eater at all.
Lives in
The United States, from Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and Nevada east to New Jersey and Florida
What does it eat?
It eats insects, collects seeds such as dandelion seeds, and drinks sweet juice from little sugar spots on plants.
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)
Variable 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
A colony can grow to about 4,000 workers, but rarely bigger.
2
Some plants have little sugar spots on their leaves or stems, away from the flowers, and this ant likes to drink from them.
3
Its babies grow through four stages before they turn into grown-up ants.
you asked
Most asked questions about Variable big-headed ant
?What does the big-headed ant eat?
Insects, seeds and sweet plant juice.
?Where does the variable big-headed ant live?
In much of the United States, in many kinds of places.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pheidole bicarinata
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Common big-headed ant
Where the facts come from
- Pheidole bicarinata (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 Jen Fogarty. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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