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7 Winter Ant Prenolepis imparis Winter ants chill out in summer, preferring to hot foot around in colder months. Photo by Alex Wild
Meet the Winter Ant Remember in Alice in Wonderland when Alice followed the white rabbit down its bunny hole? The hole was ordinary enough at first, but once Alice climbed in, she fell down and down until she came to a completely different world. Holes like that rabbit’s pepper the ground across the United States. If we were as small as ants, we could tumble repeatedly down into other worlds. Winter ants (Prenolepis imparis) are the white rabbits of ants. Plunging down their holes gives us a peek into their truly extraordinary lives. Unless you follow a winter ant home, its nest’s entrance can be hard to find. About the size of a buttonhole, winter ant nests aren’t a lot to look at on the outside. Inside, deep mazes of tunnels connect chambers all the way to the bottom. They can extend almost 12 feet deep in the soil. That would be the human equivalent of a class of second graders digging a hole more than 1.14 miles down, deep enough that 150 school buses could be stacked end-on-end before reaching the surface. Urban Life Where it lives: Winter ants nest deep in the soil near tree bases or in open ground, like lawns. What it eats: While winter ants won’t pass up the opportunity for a sugary snack, these ladies prefer protein-packed food, noshing on other insects unlucky enough to endure winter’s chill. NYC notes: Even though it gets very cold in New York, Prenolepis imparis still hangs out in the fall and spring. On a cold fall day, a day that seems too cold for ants, you can sometimes find these lovelies on park benches, their bellies golden with sugar, as they pause to catch a chance sun ray. Discoveries await. 48
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Page 44 and 45: Meet the Crazy Ant Crazy relatives.
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Page 54 and 55: Meet the Field Ant Formica ants, us
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Page 60 and 61: Meet the Asian Needle Ant The Asian
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