Giant forest ant
The giant forest ant is one of the biggest ants in the world. It lives in the rainforests of Southeast Asia. It is busy mostly at night, when it goes out looking for food.
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Its big soldier ants are almost three centimetres long.
A colony has about 7,000 workers living in several different nests.
The large workers are almost three times as heavy as the small ones.
A few ants sometimes meet at night for ritual battles that can go on for months.
Most asked questions about Giant forest ant
?How big is the giant forest ant?
Workers are about 2 centimetres long and soldiers almost 3 centimetres.
?What does the giant forest ant eat?
Mostly sweet honeydew, plus insects and bird droppings.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dinomyrmex gigas
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Dinomyrmex (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 Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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