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    What is the Largest Ant in the World?

    What is the Largest Ant in the World?

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    By Albert on July 10, 2023 News

    African driver ant (Dorylus gribodoi) is the biggest ant in the world. This queen driver ant can grow up to nearly 5 cm long.

    It is also known as Dorylus, Safari Ants or Saifu. Dorylus is a large genus of army ants which found in central and east Africa.

    Fun Facts About Dorylus

    • Each Dorylus colony can contain over 20 million individuals driver ant.
    • During food supplies they leave the hill and form marching columns of up to 50,000,000 ants.
    • Driver ants prey on larvae of the African sugarcane borer.
    • Earthworms is the large part of diet of Dorylus.
    • Their queens are even larger and the drones are larger than the soldiers
    • After mating, the queen will lay up to 1,000,000 eggs per month.
    • When East African tribe Maasai moran suffer from a gash in the bush, they use the soldiers to stitch the wound by getting the ants to bite on both sides of the gash

    Scientific classification of Dorylus

    • Kingdom:Animalia
    • Phylum: Arthropoda
    • Class: Insecta
    • Order: Hymenoptera
    • Family: Formicidae
    • Subfamily:Dorylinae
    • Leach, 1815
    • Tribe: Dorylini
    • Leach, 1815
    • Genus: Dorylus
    • Fabricius, 1793
    • Type species: Vespa helvola
    • Diversity: 61 species
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