Hairy-headed acrobat ant
The hairy-headed acrobat ant is a small ant from the south-east of the USA. It likes wet places, like salt marshes by the sea and damp meadows. Its family does not live in just one nest, but in several at once.
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Fun facts
One family spreads out over several nests at the same time.
It makes its nests inside hollow plant stems, logs and fallen branches.
It lives in tidal marshes, where the sea water comes and goes every day.
Acrobat ants can lift the back end of their body up over their back, like a little acrobat.
Most asked questions about Hairy-headed acrobat ant
?Where does the hairy-headed acrobat ant live?
In the south-eastern USA, in tidal marshes, wet meadows and other damp places.
?Why is it called an acrobat ant?
Acrobat ants can lift the back end of their body up over their back, like an acrobat.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Crematogaster pilosa
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Crematogaster pilosa (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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