Banded sugar ant
The banded sugar ant is a big Australian ant with a sweet tooth. The female workers have a black head, an orange middle and an orange-brown band around their back end. It mostly comes out at night to look for sweet food.
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Fun facts
It looks after aphids like tiny cows and collects the sweet juice they make.
The males are completely black, unlike the colourful female workers.
It quarrels with meat ants. They steal each other's food and even block each other's nest holes.
Echidnas, birds and other ants like to eat it.
Most asked questions about Banded sugar ant
?Why is it called a sugar ant?
Because it loves sugar and sweet food, and it has an orange-brown band on its back end.
?How big is a banded sugar ant?
Workers are about 5 to 15 millimetres long, and queens are even bigger.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus consobrinus
- Named by
- Erichson, 1842
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Sugar ant
Where the facts come from
- Banded sugar ant (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 Benjamint444. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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