Japanese carpenter ant
The Japanese carpenter ant is a big black ant from eastern Asia. It is one of the largest ants there is. Its workers come in different sizes, and the biggest ones are called soldiers.
How big is it?
How long is it?
How big is Japanese carpenter ant compared to YOU?
Just maths in your browser. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
The queen is about 17 millimetres long, and before her wedding flight she has four see-through brown wings.
Workers come in three sizes, from 6 to 15 millimetres.
A caterpillar of one butterfly smells like an ant, so the ants carry it into their nest and feed it like their own baby.
It can smell whether another ant is from its own nest or a stranger.
The biggest ants of this kind live in northern China.
Most asked questions about Japanese carpenter ant
?How big is the Japanese carpenter ant?
Workers are 6 to 15 millimetres long, and the queen is about 17 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus japonicus
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Camponotus japonicus (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 KKPCW. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
If we got something wrong, sorry, we are bug fans, not a science journal. Tell us at [email protected] and we will fix it.
Bug Wiki honey jar For grown-ups: Bug Wiki is free, with no ads and no tracking. A small tip helps keep it online.Leave a tip
Black garden ant
Bullet ant
Pharaoh ant
Argentine ant
Red imported fire ant
Yellow crazy ant
Red-humped caterpillar moth
Button's banana slug
Rust pine borer
Minotaur beetle
Carpathian blue slug
Burnt pine longhorn