Carpenter ant
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| phylum | Arthropoda | Carpenter ants are large (0.3 to 1 in or 8 to 25 mm) ants indigenous to many forested parts of the world. They build nests inside wood, consisting of galleries chewed out with their mandibles or jaws, preferably in dead, damp wood. However, unlike termites, they do not consume wood but instead discard a material that resembles sawdust outside their nest. They also farm aphids: the ants protect the aphids from predators while they excrete a sugary fluid called honeydew, which the ants get by stroking the aphids with their antennae.
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| Class | Insecta | |
| order | Hymenoptera | |
| family | Formicidae | |
| Subfamily | Formicinae | |
| genus | Camponotus |
