Velvet sugar ant
Camponotus rufoglaucus
The velvet sugar ant is a carpenter ant that lives in many warm countries in Africa and Asia. Like all ants, it lives in a big family called a colony, with a queen who lays the eggs. The workers walk far and wide to find food for everyone.
Lives in
Africa and Asia, from South Africa and the Canary Islands to India, China and Borneo
What does it eat?
Like other carpenter ants, it loves sweet things, such as sugary drops made by plants and little sap-sucking bugs. It also eats small insects.
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)
Velvet sugar 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 lives in a huge area, from the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean all the way to Borneo.
2
Scientists have split it into eight subspecies that live in different places. One is called zulu and lives in South Africa.
3
It belongs to the carpenter ants, a group with many big, strong ants.
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Most asked questions about Velvet sugar ant
?Where does the velvet sugar ant live?
In many countries of Africa and Asia, for example India, Kenya, Namibia, Thailand and China.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus rufoglaucus
- Named by
- Jerdon, 1851
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Camponotus rufoglaucus (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 Vihaking277. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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