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In the last post, I looked at carpenter ants overwintering in upstate New York. Here is Chandler, Arizona the temperatures the day this was taken ranged from a low of 45° F (7° C) to a high of 78° F (26° C). What are the ants doing here? Any activity at this Pogonomyrex harvester ant nest? Can you [...] Last week I got a peek at where Camponotus pennsylvanicus carpenter ants spend the winter. The temperatures were hovering around freezing in upstate New York, where I was helping someone spit firewood. When the wood split, occasionally we would find tunnels, hardly more than grooves in the wood, packed with ants. Although the ants look like they [...] The leafcutter ants were busy in Tucson a few weeks ago. Check out this mound the ants had constructed. Most of the workers I saw were carrying clumps of dirt/pebbles. The worker dumped her load and then went back for more. The surface of the mound looks like a boulder field from the perspective of the ant. Harvester ants and [...] On a recent trip to the Hassayampa River Preserve, we ran across a number of harvester ant mounds, particularly those of Pogonomyrmex barbatus. I examined the refuse piles, or middens, to see what the ants had been gathering. Pogonomyrmex barbatus typically gather seeds and their middens reflect that. The larger ovoid seeds caught my eye, because I knew [...] |
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