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Subfamily Dolichoderinae
- This page contains pictures and information about Black Cocktail Ants that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Body length 5mm
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- 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
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- 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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