Ant
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Name: Unknown Family: Formicidae | ||||||||
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Names in other languages
アリ
개미 Formica Ameise
蚂蚁
Fourmi Hormiga Mier
螞蟻 Fourmi Hormiga Муравей |
The ant is a bug in the Animal Crossing series introduced in Animal Crossing. Ants will swarm over candy, lollipops, and spoiled turnips, regardless of the season or time of day. Despite there being a large group of ants present on discarded food, only one can be caught at a time; once one has been caught, the other ants disappear. In New Horizons, the ants can be seen marching single-file from the food item back to a tiny ant hill, which also disappears when an ant is caught. Ants sell for 80 Bells.
Catch details[edit]
In Animal Crossing[edit]
In Wild World[edit]
Description | About 20 percent of worker ants do nothing. Lazy! |
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Time of year | All year |
Time of day | All day |
Peak times | N/A |
Location | On spoiled turnips/candy |
Bug size | 5 mm |
Rarity | Common |
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In City Folk[edit]
Description | Twenty percent of worker ants actually don't do anything... They are lazy ants. |
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Time of year | All year |
Time of day | All day |
Peak times | N/A |
Location | On spoiled turnips/candy |
Bug size | 5 mm |
Rarity | Common |
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In New Leaf[edit]
Time of year | All year |
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Time of day | All day |
Peak times | N/A |
Location | On spoiled turnips/candy |
Size | 6 mm |
Rarity | Very common |
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In New Horizons[edit]
Time of year | North: All year South: All year |
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Time of day | All day |
Location | On spoiled turnips/candy/lollipops |
Weather | Any weather |
Spawn requirement | Appears from the start of the game |
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Donating to the museum[edit]
In Animal Crossing[edit]
When the player is donating it to the museum, Blathers will say the following:
In Wild World[edit]
Upon donating to the museum in Wild World, Blathers the curator will say:
Once donated in Wild World, a trail of ants can be found marching amongst the trees in the second room of the insect exhibit.
In City Folk[edit]
Upon donating to the museum in City Folk, Blathers the curator will say:
In City Folk, ants form a trail along the path on the central terrace of the insect exhibit. The Ants emerge from a hole in the wall and swarm over a pile of sugar that lies on the path some distance away.
In New Leaf[edit]
Upon donating to the museum in New Leaf, Blathers will say:
In New Horizons[edit]
When asked about the bug, Blathers will say the following:
Once donated, the ant can be seen in the bug farms exhibit, alongside the long locust and mole cricket, and can also be seen in a trail going into the lab exhibit.
Gallery[edit]
Real-world information[edit]
Ants, from the family Formicidae, are insects that have existed for at least 110 million years. They are widespread throughout the world and are easily identified by their long antennae, large abdomen, and sectioned bodies. There are thought to be at least ten thousand species of ants world-wide.
Trivia[edit]
- In Animal Crossing: Wild World, the player makes a reference to the song, "Ain't Misbehavin'," when catching an ant.
Names in other languages[edit]
アリ ari |
Ant | |
개미 gaemi |
Ant | |
蚂蚁 mǎyǐ |
Ant | |
螞蟻 Unknown |
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Муравей Muravey |
Ant | |
Mier | Ant | |
Ameise | Ant | |
Hormiga | Ant | |
Fourmi | Ant | |
Formica | Ant |
Notes[edit]
- ↑ All bugs and fish in the first-generation games can appear at a lower spawn rate up to five days before the start of their first month of availability.
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