Ants in Australia

 

COMMON ANTS OF AUSTRALIA

The list of Ants in Australia:

 

Argentine Ant: 

-          - Sugar eater

-          - It has 5-8 large teeth on the mandibles and 5-13 smaller denticles

-          - Resembles the white footed house ant, but is brown in colour

     
 - Lacks a strong smell when quashed 

Black house ant:

      - Sugar eater

     - A small intensely-black ant

     - This ant has a distinguishing node

     - Slightly smaller and stockier than the white footed house ant

     - This is Australia’s most common house ant

 

 

Bulldog Ant:

-         -  Protein eater

-         -  One of the largest ants in Australia

-         - Red/black in colour and very aggressive

-         - Very long and straight mandibles with large eyes

-         - Painful sting

Coastal brown Ant:

      - Fats and oils eater

      - Golden brown to brown in colour

     - Two raised nodes on pedicel (rear node more rounded)

      - Polymorphic (major workers with large heads)

      - Sting present

      - Spines visible on thorax

Carpenter Ant:

-         -  Sugar eater

-         - Variable in colour – from black to dark brown to orange

-         -  Has a smooth, evenly rounder thorax

-         - Quite large in size

-         -  Polymorphic (hard workers)

-         - Mandibles has 5-8 teeth