Spotted sugar ant
Camponotus maculatus
The spotted sugar ant is a carpenter ant that lives in many warm countries. Carpenter ants are some of the biggest ants, and this one is found all over Africa and on many islands.
Lives in
Africa, parts of Asia and some Pacific islands
What does it eat?
Like other carpenter ants, it likes sweet juices and also eats 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)
Spotted sugar ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives in many African countries, and on islands such as Madagascar and Mauritius.
2
Some kinds of it live far away, in the Philippines, Singapore and on the Pacific island of Palau.
3
There are six slightly different kinds of it in different parts of the world.
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Most asked questions about Spotted sugar ant
?Where does the spotted sugar ant live?
In many countries in Africa, and in parts of Asia and on some Pacific islands.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus maculatus
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1782
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Camponotus maculatus (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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