Hairless rover ant
Brachymyrmex depilis
The hairless rover ant is a small ant that lives in North America. Like all ants, it lives together with lots of other ants in a big family called a colony. Scientists are still sorting out which ants really belong to its kind.
Lives in
North America
What does it eat?
Not much is written about its food. Like most ants, it most likely eats many different small things it finds.
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)
Hairless rover 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 is a native ant of North America, which means it has always lived there.
2
In 2019 scientists found that two forms thought to be different were really the same, so it no longer has subspecies.
3
An ant that was named as its own species in 1903 turned out to be this very same ant.
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Most asked questions about Hairless rover ant
?Where does the hairless rover ant live?
In North America, where it has always lived.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Brachymyrmex depilis
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Brachymyrmex depilis (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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