Pallid twig ant
The pallid twig ant is a slender ant with big eyes. Its workers can be yellow, orange or brown. Instead of digging in the ground, it makes its home inside hollow dead grass stems and twigs.
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Fun facts
Its nest is inside a hollow dead grass stem or twig. The stem can be only 5 to 10 millimetres wide.
The door to the nest is so small that one worker can block it with her own body to keep enemies out.
One colony can have up to 15 queens and 20 to 200 workers.
A colony can live in several stems at once, a bit like one family with several houses.
Male ants only appear in summer and autumn. In winter there are none in the nests.
Most asked questions about Pallid twig ant
?Where does the pallid twig ant live?
From the southern United States to Central America, inside hollow grass stems and twigs.
?What does the pallid twig ant eat?
Sweet plant juices like nectar, and insects.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pseudomyrmex pallidus
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Pseudomyrmex pallidus (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 AntWeb.org. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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