Black slender ant
Tetraponera nigra
The black slender ant is a thin, dark ant from Asia. Like all ants, it lives in a big family with a queen and lots of workers. It can be found from India all the way to China and the Philippines.
Lives in
South and Southeast Asia and China
What does it eat?
Like many ants, it eats a mix of small insects and sweet foods.
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)
Black slender 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 at least seven countries, from Sri Lanka and India to China.
2
It is found on big islands too, like Borneo and the islands of the Philippines.
3
Its family is called a colony, and only the queen lays eggs.
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Most asked questions about Black slender ant
?Where does the black slender ant live?
In Asia: Borneo, the Philippines, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and China.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tetraponera nigra
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Tetraponera nigra (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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