Blood-red ant
The blood-red ant is a red and black ant with a sneaky trick. It raids the nests of other ants and carries their babies home. When those babies grow up, they work for the blood-red ants.
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Fun facts
Scout ants go out first to find a nest to raid. Then the whole army follows.
It never goes raiding on rainy or cloudy days.
It mixes its acid with a special oily liquid that helps the acid soak into enemy ants.
Most queens mate with more than one male, more often than in any other ant of its group.
Most asked questions about Blood-red ant
?Why is it called the blood-red ant?
Because of its red colour. Its scientific name sanguinea means blood-red too.
?What is a slave-maker ant?
An ant that steals the babies of other ants and lets them grow up to work in its own nest.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Formica sanguinea
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America
Where the facts come from
- Formica sanguinea (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 Garinger. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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