Longhorn crazy ant
The longhorn crazy ant is a tiny dark ant with very long legs and feelers. It does not walk in neat lines like other ants. Instead it zigzags around in a crazy, jerky way, which is how it got its name.
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Fun facts
It is one of the most widespread ants in the world. It has even reached Estonia, where it lives inside buildings.
Several ants work together to carry big pieces of food home.
In a giant glass dome in the Arizona desert called Biosphere 2, it pushed out almost all the other kinds of ants within five years.
A tiny wingless cricket sneaks into its nest and steals food from the ants.
Most asked questions about Longhorn crazy ant
?Why are they called crazy ants?
Because they run around in jerky zigzags instead of walking in straight lines like other ants.
?How big is the longhorn crazy ant?
A worker is only about 2.3 to 3 millimetres long, but its legs and feelers are very long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Paratrechina longicornis
- Group
- Ants
- Family
- Formicidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Formicidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Black crazy ant
Where the facts come from
- Longhorn crazy ant (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 Erin Prado. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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