Black ant can refer to:
Biology
A term used for
eusocial insects of the family Formicidae that are black in color. It has been used to describe many
ants, including:
* The
Black carpenter ant
The black carpenter ant (''Camponotus pennsylvanicus'') is one of the largest and most common species of carpenter ant native to the central and eastern United States as well as eastern Canada.
Description
''C. pennsylvanicus'' can be distingu ...
(''Camponotus pennsylvanicus'')
* The
Black garden ant (''Lasius niger'')
* The
Little black ant
The little black ant (''Monomorium minimum'') is a species of ant native to North America.[Ant mimicry
Ant mimicry or myrmecomorphy is mimicry of ants by other organisms. Ants are abundant all over the world, and potential predators that rely on vision to identify their prey, such as birds and wasps, normally avoid them, because they are either un ...]
)
Other uses
*
Black Ant, a
Marvel Comics character who is a
Life Model Decoy of
Eric O'Grady
See also
*
Ant
*
List of ant genera (alphabetical)
Ants (family Formicidae in the order Hymenoptera) are the most species-rich of all social insects, with more than 12,000 described species and many others awaiting description. Formicidae is divided into 21 subfamilies, of which 17 are extant an ...
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Ant (disambiguation)
An ant is a eusocial insect that belongs to the same order as wasps and bees.
Ant, Ants, or ANT may refer to:
Places
* Ant, Lucknow, a village in Lucknow district, Uttar Pradesh, India
* Ant, a village in Avram Iancu, Bihor County, Romania
* ...
, another ant-related disambiguation page
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