Driver ant
Driver ants march through Africa in long, long rows with millions of ants. Big soldier ants with huge jaws stand guard along the sides while smaller ants run safely in the middle. They have no home nest for long and move on when food runs out.
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Fun facts
One family can have more than 20 million ants.
Driver ants are completely blind. They find their way and talk to each other with smells.
The queen is the biggest ant on Earth and can lay millions of eggs every month.
Their jaws are so strong that some people in East Africa use the soldier ants like stitches to close a cut.
The males have fat, sausage-shaped bodies and are called sausage flies.
Most asked questions about Driver ant
?How many ants are in a driver ant colony?
More than 20 million ants can live in one colony.
?What do driver ants eat?
Small animals of all kinds, especially earthworms. They also eat many crop pests, which helps farmers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dorylus
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia
- Also known as
- Safari ant, Siafu
Where the facts come from
- Dorylus (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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