Six-spotted carpenter ant
Camponotus sexguttatus
The six-spotted carpenter ant is a busy ant from warm parts of the Americas. It lives in big families called colonies, with a queen who lays all the eggs. It has also travelled to new places far from home.
Lives in
South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean, and now also Florida, Hawaii and Arizona
What does it eat?
Like other carpenter ants, it eats many things, such as small insects and sweet juices.
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)
Six-spotted carpenter ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Scientists have named eleven subspecies of it, slightly different groups of the same ant.
2
It has spread to Florida, Hawaii and Arizona, where it does not naturally belong.
3
Carpenter ants got their name because many of them make their nests in wood.
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Most asked questions about Six-spotted carpenter ant
?Where does the six-spotted carpenter ant live?
Naturally in South and Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean. It now also lives in Florida, Hawaii and Arizona.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus sexguttatus
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1793
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- South America, North America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Camponotus sexguttatus (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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