Jet ant
The jet ant is a shiny black ant with a big heart-shaped head and yellowish-brown legs. It builds its nest inside old hollow trees out of chewed wood, like cardboard. Long lines of these ants march along the same paths for months.
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Fun facts
Its cardboard nest is made stronger by a fungus that grows in the walls. The ants feed the fungus, and the fungus holds the nest together.
A big nest has just one queen but up to 15,000 workers.
A new queen cannot start a nest alone. She sneaks into the nest of another ant kind and takes it over.
A sneaky beetle waits by its trails at night and tricks the ants into giving it their food.
When there is danger, it gives off a special smell to warn the other ants.
Most asked questions about Jet ant
?Are jet ants harmful?
No. They are harmless to people and mostly eat sweet honeydew.
?Where do jet ants live?
In old hollow trees, where they build nests from chewed wood.
?How big is a jet ant?
Workers are about 4 to 6 millimetres long. Queens are a little bigger.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Lasius fuliginosus
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
- Also known as
- Jet black ant
Where the facts come from
- Lasius fuliginosus (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. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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