Ferruginous carpenter ant
Camponotus chromaiodes
The ferruginous carpenter ant is a big ant with a reddish, rusty colour. Ferruginous means rust coloured. Like other carpenter ants, it makes its home in wood.
Lives in
Eastern United States, Nebraska and Kansas, in woods
What does it eat?
Like other carpenter ants, it eats sweet things and 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)
Ferruginous carpenter ant about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its name ferruginous means the colour of rust.
2
Tiny helpful bacteria live inside the guts of its workers.
3
It may also live in California, but scientists are not sure.
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Most asked questions about Ferruginous carpenter ant
?Where does the ferruginous carpenter ant live?
In the eastern United States, Nebraska and Kansas.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus chromaiodes
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Red carpenter ant
Where the facts come from
- Camponotus chromaiodes (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 Judy Gallagher. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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