Toothed big-headed ant
Pheidole dentata
The toothed big-headed ant is a small ant from the south-east of the United States and Mexico. In big-headed ant families, some workers have extra large heads.
Lives in
North America, from the middle of the US east coast and the south-east down to Mexico
What does it eat?
Like most ants, it eats small insects and other bits of food 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)
Toothed big-headed ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
As a worker ant gets older, it takes on more and more jobs in its nest.
2
Older workers react to more smells than young ones, which helps them do all their jobs.
3
Ants talk to each other mostly with smells.
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Most asked questions about Toothed big-headed ant
?Where does the toothed big-headed ant live?
In North America, from the south-eastern United States down to Mexico.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pheidole dentata
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Pheidole dentata (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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