Copper-bellied ant
The copper-bellied ant is a tiny brown to black ant from Australia. It often marches in long lines from trees to find food. Sometimes it sneaks into houses and helps itself to kitchen food.
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Fun facts
The workers are only 2 to 3 millimetres long, while the queens are about twice as long.
The males are the smallest of all, at less than 2 millimetres.
It is busy both in the day and at night.
It looks after aphids and mealybugs, which give it sweet honeydew in return.
It builds nests under stones, in old logs and hollow trees, and sometimes inside walls and ceilings.
Most asked questions about Copper-bellied ant
?What does the copper-bellied ant eat?
Sweet honeydew from aphids and mealybugs, small insects, and food it finds in houses.
?How big is the copper-bellied ant?
The workers are just 2 to 3 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ochetellus glaber
- Named by
- Mayr, 1862
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Black household ant, Black house ant, Tramp ant
Where the facts come from
- Ochetellus glaber (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 AntWeb.org. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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