Ant Species
There are about 12,000 different ant species.
Frequently asked questions
Species
I have always call them Crazy ant but really they are the Argentine ants species.
Stings? NO
Nuptial flight: They do not engage in mating flights. They mate in the nest during late spring and summer.
Location: Found them in AL.
6th and 7th pics are the Queen Ant.
Food the need: feed on a wide variety of foods, unsalted cracker, bread including sweet drinks, cakes, pet food, meat and mealworms, earthworms, termites, and many insects.
Species: Aphaenogaster Tennesseensis (The Aphanogaster Tennesseensis Queen Ant are a Parasitic that take over A. rudis, A. fulva, and A. picea colonies. until she has Aphaenogaster tennesseensis youngling)
Stings?: Yes
Nuptial flight: July - August
Location: Found them in Newton AL
Food They Need: Nuts and seeds almonds, peanuts, pecans and they will accepted mealworms and crickets as staples.
Species: The works are either Aphaenogaster Rudis / Texana / Carolinensis (The Queen Ant is a Aphaenogaster Rudis )
Stings?: Yes but more likley to spray formic acid
Nuptial flight: July - August
Location: Found them in Newton AL and Phil Campbelle
Food They Need: are scavengers and prey on small invertebrates and parts of insects mealworms, crickets, and other insects that they find. They are important seed dispersers in forests.
Species: The workers are either Aphaenogaster Fulva / Carolinensis
Stings?: Yes but more likley to spray formic acid
Nuptial flight: July - August
Location: Found them in Phil Campbelle
Food They Need: diet consists of small invertebrates, seeds, and nuts, liquid good honey or surgar water.
Species: Brachymyrmex
Stings?: NO
Nuptial flight: May - Aug after a rainfall on warm humid evenings.
Location: Found them in my location Ozark, AL.
Food They Need: to feed on diet of sugars, protein powder, and whole egg. They will also feed on flightless fruit flies and mealworm cutlets.
Species: Cyphomyrmex - fungus ant (they grow yeast)
Stings?: NO
Nuptial flight: April - July
Location: Found them in my location AL.
Food They Need: use the mycelium and yeast as a food source, but they do not cut leaves. They scraps of dead insects and frass and some seed.
Species: Camponotus snellingi
Stings?: NO
Nuptial flight: April - July
Location: Found them in my location AL.
Food They Need: They love variety of insects and fruits such as crickets, mealworms, super-worms, termites, fruit flies, roaches. They love sugar water, crystallized sugar, nectars. protein jelly, pure honey, honey water, honeydew extract, fruits like apples, pears, or watermelon. (Make sure to switch up food every once in while so to beneficial your ant’s health.)
Species: Camponotus Nearcticus
Stings?: NO
Nuptial flight: April - June
Location: Found them in my location AL.
Food They Need: They love variety of insects and fruits such as crickets, mealworms, super-worms, termites, fruit flies, roaches. They love sugar water, crystallized sugar, nectar, protein jelly, pure honey, honey water, honeydew extract, fruits like apples, pears, or watermelon. (Make sure to switch up food every once in while so to beneficial your ant’s health.)
Species: Camponotus floridanus
Stings?: NO
Nuptial flight: May - Aug
Location: Found them in Columbia, AL.
Food They Need: They love variety of insects and fruits such as crickets, mealworms, super-worms, termites, fruit flies, roaches. They love sugar water, crystallized sugar, nectars. protein jelly, pure honey, honey water, honeydew extract, fruits like apples, pears, or watermelon. (Make sure to switch up food every once in while so to beneficial your ant’s health.)
Species: Componentus Chromaiodes
Stings?: No
Nuptial flight: April - May
Location: Found them in Newton AL
Food They Need: honeydew, nectar, and insects.
Species: Camponotus Castaneus
Stings?: NO
Nuptial flight: April - July
Location: Found them in Newton AL.
Food They Need: any insects, fruits(paires, orange, apple), superworms, mealworms, dubia roaches, and fruit flies. They require sugar water or honey.
Species: Crematogaster cerasi
Stings?: NO but they spray acidic foam onto their pray.
Nuptial flight: Aug - Oct
Location: Found them in Columbia, AL.
Food They Need: eat plants, seeds, and insects such as wasps, mealworms, fruit flies, Dubia and crickets. They enjoy sweet liquids such as nectar, sugar water, maple syrup and a mixture of honey and water, ketchup, ice cream.
Species: Formica
Stings?: NO
Nuptial flight: June-September
Location: Found them at Phil Campbelle, AL
Food They Need: live and dead insects, seeds and honeydew, meats, grease, liver, fruit jucies honeydew, and zoophagy and plants, saps, seeds, fungi.
Species: Nylanderia
Stings?: NO
Nuptial flight: May - Aug
Location: Found them in Newton, AL.
Food They Need: insects, honeydew from aphids, plant juices, and sugary liquids.
Species: The look almost like a wasp but these ants are call Pseudomyrmex Gracilis, also known as the graceful twig ant, Mexican twig ant, slender twig ant, or elongated twig ant, is a large, slender species.
Stings? YES Nuptial Flights : March- Nov.
Location: Native to Mexico and South American. Some part of US. Found this ant in AL.
Food They Eat: supply of honey, and always cut up protein other than fruit flies.
Species: Pseudomyrmex ejectus
Stings?: unknown
Nuptial flight: May - July
Location: Found them in my location AL.
Food They Need: unknown
Species: They are winter ant -
Prenolepis imparis.
Stings? NO
Nuptial Flight: Feb - March. and December
Location: Found them in AL.
Food they need: They eat small insects, termites, any earthworms. They drink liquids from nectar and the sugars.
Species: Pheidole obscurithorax
Stings?: NO
Nuptial flight: May - July
Location: Found them in Ozark, AL.
Food They Need: They are omnivorous and collects a variety of insects and ants. They loves mealworms, caterpillars, earthworms and any insects and they love vary of food bread, cracker, raw honey and more.
Species: Pheidole Dentata
Stings?: NO
Nuptial flight: June-September
Location: Found them at John Huto Park, Newton AL
Food They Need: live and dead insects, seeds and honeydew, meats, grease, liver, fruit jucies and they can remove and disperse seeds.
Species: Red Imported Fire Ants
Stings? YES Nuptial Flight: Spring and Fall in the afternoon after a rainy day and humidity. Between 70 and 95 degrees F. When there is low wind and high humidity, and usually within 24 hours of a rain.
Location: Southern State NC, SC, TN, AL,GA, FL, MS, AR, LA, OK, TX, NM, AZ, and through some part of CA.
Food they eat: dead bird, any insects, mealworms, earthworms, crickets, bread, cracker, sweet honey water and sugars and any vary of food.
Species: They are Leaf Cutter Ant
for their species is Trachymrymex septentrionalis.
Stings?: NO Nuptial flight: May - Aug
Location: Found them in my location AL.
Food They Need: steel cut oats/organic oats, dry rose petal, detritus, coconut fiber, dried strawberry, almond chips, apple jacks, orange peel, nectar, insects frass, grass, seed, leaf, and plants based to grow fungus to provide for their colony.