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The southern wood ant, aka horse ant or red wood ant, hails from Europe, but has a distribution all the way to eastern Asia. Unconfirmed reports state their presence in North America as well. They face the threats of habitat loss and destruction from residential and commercial developments, and clear-felling, […]

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This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The banded sugar ant, aka sugar ant, is native to southern and eastern Australia. These critters get their name from their love of sugar and sweet foods. The banded common name comes from the orange-brown band that wraps around their gaster (the bulbous posterior portion of the metasoma, aka the […]

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