pismire

1. 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 piercing
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: ant, emmet

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