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Monomorium pharaonis, pharaoh ant, pharaoh's ant
small red ant of warm regions; a common household pest
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Monomorium minimum, little black ant
tiny glossy black ant; nests outdoors but invades houses for food
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army ant, driver ant, legionary ant
tropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects
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carpenter ant
ant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggs
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fire ant
omnivorous ant of tropical and subtropical America that can inflict a painful sting
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Formica rufa, wood ant
reddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands
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slave ant
any of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species
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slave-maker, slave-making ant
an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants
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bulldog ant
any of the large fierce Australian ants of the genus Myrmecia
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Formica fusca
an ant frequently enslaved
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Formica sanguinea, sanguinary ant
slave-making ant widely distributed over the northern hemisphere
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Amazon ant, Polyergus rufescens
small reddish slave-making ant species