Buren's pyramid ant
Dorymyrmex bureni
Buren's pyramid ant is a small, light orange ant that runs very fast. It lives in sandy soil and builds a little crater of sand around the door of its nest.
Lives in
The southeastern United States, along the Atlantic coast from the Florida Keys to New Jersey, in sandy places
Length
2 to 4 mm (0.08 to 0.16 in)
What does it eat?
It hunts living insects, even winged ants, and collects sweet honeydew from sap-sucking bugs.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 13 seconds
How big is Buren's pyramid ant compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Buren's pyramid ant about 0.27 km/h (0.17 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
When it is crushed, it gives off a stinky smell like rotten coconut.
2
It has curved hairs on its head that it uses to carry little balls of damp sand.
3
Its colonies are small, and each nest usually has just one entrance.
4
It does not come into houses, so people do not need to spray it.
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Most asked questions about Buren's pyramid ant
?Why is it called a pyramid ant?
Pyramid ants pile up sand around the door of their nest into a little mound.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dorymyrmex bureni
- Named by
- Trager, 1988
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Dorymyrmex bureni (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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