Acrobat ants (Crematogaster) · Crematogaster
Crematogaster biroi
Crematogaster biroi
Named after a person surnamed Biró, hence the Chinese name. The body is golden yellow. It lives mainly on the forest floor and, besides feeding on plant secretions, also scavenges dead insects. Because its body is a translucent gold, it is rarely seen in daytime and forages mostly late at night. Workers are monomorphic with no soldiers, and like other acrobat ants it founds colonies cooperatively before the queens are whittled down to one.
