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If you happen across a worker ant of Pachycondyla tarsata (previously known as Paltothyreus tarsatus), you will have no need to look them up in a book to identify them. You will probably be able to tell what kind of ant they are by their foul odor. The smell they produce is so bad that [...] Last month while I was in Denver, I noticed some ants in my in-laws front yard. As usual, I had about two minutes to watch them. I noticed a couple of workers struggling with something. It looked like a queen ant with deformed wings. The workers let it go and it ran off. At which point my brother-in-law asked me [...] Do I have an ant queen? What does an ant queen look like? Because I frequently am asked these questions by beginning ant enthusiasts, let’s go over what you need to look for to tell if the ant you have seen or captured is a queen. (Note: this guide is for ants with a morphologically distinct queen. [...] |
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