Graceful twig ant
Pseudomyrmex gracilis
The graceful twig ant is a big, slim ant that looks and moves a bit like a wasp. Its head and back end are dark, and its middle and legs are dull orange. You often see it running over plants.
Lives in
Mexico and dry parts of the southern United States
Length
0.8 to 1 cm (0.31 to 0.39 in)
What does it eat?
It hunts live insects and also drinks honeydew, the sweet juice made by sap sucking bugs.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍚as long as 1.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 8.6 seconds
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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)
Graceful twig ant about 0.42 km/h (0.26 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Workers are about 8 to 10 millimetres long, which is big for an ant.
2
If the colony loses its queen, the workers have boxing matches with their feelers.
3
The winners of the boxing become the leaders and can lay eggs until there is a new queen.
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Most asked questions about Graceful twig ant
?What does the graceful twig ant eat?
Live insects and sweet honeydew from sap sucking bugs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pseudomyrmex gracilis
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Mexican twig ant, Slender twig ant, Elongated twig ant
Where the facts come from
- Pseudomyrmex gracilis (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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