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Argentine ant — printable fact sheet
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Argentine ant
Linepithema humile
The Argentine ant is a small, light to dark brown ant species native to South America but now found on every continent except Antarctica. It is renowned for forming massive supercolonies, sometimes spanning hundreds of kilometers, due to its lack of aggression toward other colon…
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- A single Argentine ant supercolony in Southern Europe stretches over 6,000 kilometers along the Mediterranean coast.
- Argentine ants form some of the largest cooperative colonies in the world, spanning entire regions. They use chemical trails to coordinate foraging and can rapidly exploit food sources. This species has displaced native ants in many places, altering local ecosystems.
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