Dark rover ant
The dark rover ant is a tiny brown ant, smaller than a grain of rice. It comes from South America, but it has travelled to the United States, Asia and Europe. It likes to move into houses and other buildings.
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Fun facts
Worker ants are only 1 to 2 millimetres long. The queen is about 3 millimetres.
It was first found in the United States in Louisiana in the 1970s.
It now lives in 14 states of the United States, from North Carolina to California.
It likes damp places and nests in soil, leaf litter, wood piles and garden mulch.
Most nests have just one queen.
Most asked questions about Dark rover ant
?Why are dark rover ants in my house?
They like damp places and often move into buildings, where they look for sweet food.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Brachymyrmex patagonicus
- Named by
- Mayr, 1868
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- South America, North America, Asia, Europe
- Also known as
- Black rover ant
Where the facts come from
- Brachymyrmex patagonicus (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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