More amazing ant-facts These ant facts are gathered all over the web. They do not have any scientific value, it’s just a summary. But when you are interested… feel free to look up the species here or click the resource links below each fact.

Largest ant

Giant ant (Formicium giganteum) was 1 to 3 cm long, queens 5,5 cm. but lived 46 million  years ago. The largest living ants  are the driver ants (Dorylinae) (Also called male siafu ant or Safari ants) . The queen can grow to 5 centimeter, but the the reproductive male called sausage fly is also 2,5 cm long. There are quite a few people who think it is the Gi-ant… More

• Antbase.org, dorylinae
• Wikipedia, Dorylus
• World’s Largest Ant, Educateearth, ‘Nova’ 2007

Smallest ant

The  Australian ant Carebara (Oligomyrmex) is 1 mm long, but the minor workers are smaller: 0.75 mm. These ants are at least the smalles ants in Japan. Also Leptanilla revelierii is very small. But not that small.

• Guardian.co.uk Leptanilla revelierii
• There are 262 species of ants in Japan, Gakkens photo encyclopedia
• Myrmicinae Genus: Carebara, Antweb.org, 2009