Store

Acrobat ants (Crematogaster) · Crematogaster

Crematogaster schimmeri

Crematogaster schimmeri

Named after a person surnamed Schimmer, hence the Chinese name. The body is light brown. It lives mainly on the forest floor and, besides feeding on plant secretions, also scavenges dead insects. 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.

Explore other antsStore