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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Japanese Carpenter Ant

Camponotus japonicus

About

A large black carpenter ant common throughout East Asia and a popular species in ant keeping. Colonies can grow very large with distinctive polymorphic worker castes.

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Did You Know?

This ant is one of the most commonly kept pet ant species in Japan and has become an icon in the Japanese ant-keeping hobby.