Electric ant
The electric ant is a teeny tiny golden brown ant, only about one and a half millimetres long. It comes from Central and South America, but it has travelled with people to many warm places.
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Fun facts
Its queens can make new queens all by themselves, without any father. They are like copies of their mother.
Its males can make copies of themselves too. It was the first animal found where both mothers and fathers can make clones.
It is one of the most harmful invasive ants, because it spreads to new places and pushes out other animals.
It sometimes moves into houses and makes nests in furniture, food and even clothes.
Most asked questions about Electric ant
?How big is an electric ant?
Only about 1 to 2 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Wasmannia auropunctata
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- South America, North America, Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Little fire ant
Where the facts come from
- Electric 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 April Nobile. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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