ant
Noun
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Social insect living in organized colonies;
Characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season;
Wingless sterile females are the workers (synset 102222138)is a type of: hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect - insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercingsubtypes:- monomorium pharaonis, pharaoh ant, pharaoh's ant - small red ant of warm regions; a common household pest
- little black ant, monomorium minimum - tiny glossy black ant; nests outdoors but invades houses for food
- army ant, driver ant, legionary ant - tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects
- carpenter ant - ant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggs
- fire ant - omnivorous ant of tropical and subtropical America that can inflict a painful sting
- formica rufa, wood ant - reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands
- slave ant - any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species
- slave-maker, slave-making ant - an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants
- bulldog ant - any of the large fierce Australian ants of the genus Myrmecia
belongs to: family formicidae, formicidae - ants
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