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Black Cocktail Ant - Anonychomyrma sp.

Subfamily Dolichoderinae

This page contains pictures and information about Black Cocktail Ants that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
 
Body length 5mm 
 
This ant often be seen attending to various scale-insects and leafhoppers. Those ants get around them for their excretion of 'honey-dew', which contain the excess sugar.
 
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They are sometimes seen in-group attacking other larger ants and insects  
 
 
 
In ant's world, out number rules.
 
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Reference and Link:
1. Dolichoderus spp. - Australian Insect Common Names, CSIRO, 2005.
2. Anonychomyrma - myrmecos.net, 25.Mar.2006.

 
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Last updated: September 30, 2006.