Pallid big-headed ant
Pheidole pallidula
The pallid big-headed ant is a small, pale ant from the lands around the Mediterranean Sea. It lives in busy colonies with lots of sisters working together. Like its big-headed relatives, some workers have extra large heads.
Lives in
All around the Mediterranean Sea
What does it eat?
Like many ants, it gathers all kinds of small food and carries it home to share with the colony.
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)
Pallid 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
Some of its colonies have just one queen, and others have many queens.
2
Colonies with one queen and colonies with many queens can live side by side in the same area.
3
Pallid means pale, which fits its light colour.
you asked
Most asked questions about Pallid big-headed ant
?Where does the pallid big-headed ant live?
It is common all around the Mediterranean Sea.
?How many queens does a colony have?
It can be just one queen or many queens, and both kinds of colony live in the same places.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pheidole pallidula
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Pheidole pallidula (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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