Rimose fungus-farming ant
Cyphomyrmex rimosus
The rimose fungus-farming ant is a tiny farmer. It belongs to the fungus-growing ants, which grow their own food inside their nest. They tend little gardens of fungus and eat what grows.
Lives in
The warm parts of the Americas
What does it eat?
It eats a fungus that the ants grow themselves in a garden inside the nest.
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)
Rimose fungus-farming ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Fungus-growing ants were farming long before people ever planted a field.
2
The ants look after their fungus garden carefully, a bit like gardeners weeding a vegetable patch.
3
Scientists divide this ant into two subspecies.
you asked
Most asked questions about Rimose fungus-farming ant
?What does the fungus-farming ant eat?
It eats a fungus that it grows in a garden inside its own nest.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyphomyrmex rimosus
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Cyphomyrmex rimosus (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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