Silky sugar ant
Camponotus sericeus
The silky sugar ant is a carpenter ant from Africa and southern Asia. Carpenter ants chew tunnels in wood to make their nests. That is why this ant can be a real nuisance when it moves into buildings.
Lives in
Africa and southern Asia, sometimes in and around houses
What does it eat?
Like other carpenter ants, it eats sweet things and small insects. It does not eat the wood it chews.
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)
Silky sugar 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 can damage buildings, and it is very hard to get rid of once it moves in.
2
It lives across a huge area, from Africa to southern Asia.
3
It has four subspecies, each with its own name.
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Most asked questions about Silky sugar ant
?Where does the silky sugar ant live?
In Africa and southern Asia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus sericeus
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Camponotus sericeus (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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