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Cypress Acrobat Ant

Crematogaster vermiculata

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mississippi.January 14, February 14, March 14, April 26, May 15, June 10, July 8, August 9, September 11, October 13, November 10, December 11.
United States792
Mississippi154
Georgia148
Alabama109
South Carolina78
North Carolina56
California45
Nevada43
Louisiana35
Arizona25

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • EusocialLives in colonies with division of labor and cooperative brood careFrom its classification

Ecological

  • ColonialFrom its classification

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyAnts · Formicidae
GenusAcrobat Ants and Cocktail Ants · Crematogaster

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