Bicolored pennant ant
Tetramorium bicarinatum
The bicolored pennant ant is a medium sized ant with two colours: a reddish head and middle, and a dark tail end. It first came from Southeast Asia. Now it has travelled with people to many parts of the world.
Lives in
First from Southeast Asia, now spread around the world, often in and near houses
What does it eat?
Like many small ants, it eats tiny insects and bits of food it finds.
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)
Bicolored pennant 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 often lives inside houses, in greenhouses and in gardens close to houses.
2
Where it moves in, it can harm the local wildlife.
you asked
Most asked questions about Bicolored pennant ant
?Where does the bicolored pennant ant live?
It came from Southeast Asia and now lives in many countries, often in and around houses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tetramorium bicarinatum
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania, Europe
- Also known as
- Penny ant
Where the facts come from
- Tetramorium bicarinatum (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 Tom. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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