Florida carpenter ant
The Florida carpenter ant is a big, colorful ant with an orange head and body and a shiny black bottom. It is one of the best known ants in Florida. It is fast, brave and quick to defend its nest.
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Fun facts
Queens are the biggest ants in the colony, 14 to 16 millimetres long.
Unlike some carpenter ants, it does not chew into wood. It moves into holes that are already there.
A colony can grow to 1,000 workers in its first year and more than 8,000 later.
The biggest workers only guard the nest, while the small ones look after the babies and find food.
It mostly looks for food at night.
Most asked questions about Florida carpenter ant
?Do Florida carpenter ants damage houses?
Usually not. They live in holes that are already there and do not normally dig into wood.
?What do Florida carpenter ants eat?
Small insects and sweet things like nectar and honeydew from aphids.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camponotus floridanus
- Named by
- Buckley, 1866
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Camponotus floridanus (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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