Ulke's mound ant
Formica ulkei
Name means: “it is named after Titus Ulke, who collected ants”
Ulke's mound ant is a North American ant. Mound ants pile up soil and bits of plants into a big hill over their nest. Its name comes from a man who collected ants while he worked at a mine.
Lives in
North America, including South Dakota
What does it eat?
Like other mound ants, it eats small insects and sweet juices it finds on plants.
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)
Ulke's mound 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 is named after Titus Ulke, who collected ants and beetles while he worked for a mining company in South Dakota.
2
The first ants travelled through many hands: Titus sent them to his father Henry, who gave them to Theodore Pergande, who sent them on to Carlo Emery.
3
Carlo Emery described it as a new species in 1893.
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Most asked questions about Ulke's mound ant
?Who is Ulke's mound ant named after?
Titus Ulke, a mineralogist who collected ants and beetles in South Dakota.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Formica ulkei
- Named by
- Emery, 1893
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Formica ulkei (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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