Tropical carpenter ant
Camponotus atriceps
The tropical carpenter ant lives in the warm forests of the Americas. It goes looking for food only at night.
Lives in
North, Central and South America, in moist forests
What does it eat?
It eats many things.
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)
Tropical 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
It only goes out to look for food at night, so it does not have to fight the daytime ants.
2
In Brazil, beekeepers put empty bee boxes out as traps to keep these ants away from their bees.
3
It lives from near the sea up to about 2290 metres high in the mountains.
4
Many other little animals, even a tiny cockroach, live inside its nests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus atriceps
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Camponotus atriceps (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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