Driver ants in a moving column, photographed in Tanzania, Africa.
Driver ants in a moving column, photographed in Tanzania, Africa. The army ant genus Dorylus, also known as driver ants, safari ants, or siafu, is found primarily in central and east Africa, although the range also extends to tropical Asia. Unlike the New World members of the subfamily Ecitoninae, members of this genus do form temporary anthills lasting from a few days up to three months. Each colony can contain over 20 million individuals. As with their New World counterparts, there is a soldier class among the workers, which is larger, with a very large head and pincer-like mandibles. They are capable of stinging, but very rarely do so, relying instead on their powerful shearing jaws. Seasonally, when food supplies become short, they leave the hill and form marching columns of up to 50,000,000 ants which are considered a menace to people, though they can be easily avoided.
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Location: Tanzania, Africa
Photo credit: © Scott Camazine / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: ant, arthropod, color, colour, column, dorylus, driver, entomology, insect, migration, migratory, movement, moving, soldier, swarm, traffic, vertical
