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Cataglyphis [2] is a genus of ant, desert ants, in the subfamily Formicinae.Its most famous species is C. bicolor, the Sahara Desert ant, which runs on hot sand to find insects that died of heat exhaustion, and can, like other several other Cataglyphis species, sustain body temperatures up to 50°C. [3]
It is the fastest of the world’s 12,000 known ant species, clocking a velocity of 855 millimetres per second (over 1.9 miles per hour or 3.1 kilometres per hour). It can travel a length 108 times its own body length per second, a feat topped only by two other creatures, the Australian tiger beetle Rivacindela hudsoni and the California ...
Like all ants, C. castaneus has 4 life stages: egg, larva, pupa, and adult. The entire life cycle of the ant takes around 35-60 days to complete, depending on environmental factors such as heat, available resources, and humidity.
Carpenter ants are generally large ants: workers are 4–7 mm long in small species and 7–13 mm in large species, queens are 9–20 mm long and males are 5–13 mm long. The bases of the antennae are separated from the clypeal border by a distance of at least the antennal scape's maximum diameter.
The worker longhorn crazy ant is about 2.3 to 3.0 mm (0.09 to 0.12 in) long with a brownish-black head, thorax, petiole, and gaster, often with a faint blue iridescence.
You can imagine what happened next: He woke up his wife by screaming bloody murder. They got the heck out of there, waking up their friends—who were thankfully staying in the downstairs bedroom ...
Leafcutter ants can carry 20 times their body weight. ... This specialized fungus can no longer reproduce on its own and needs the ants to survive. The fungi produce gongylidia, which are like ...
This week is going to be a scorcher — with 100-plus temperatures in the forecast all week. We asked a professional exterminator if they’d gotten more calls about wayward insects because of the ...