slave-making ant
Noun
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An ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants (synset 102224472)
is a type of: ant, emmet, pismire - social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workerssubtypes:
- formica sanguinea, sanguinary ant - slave-making ant widely distributed over the northern hemisphere
- amazon ant, polyergus rufescens - small reddish slave-making ant species
same as: slave-maker
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