Are you ready for ant season to begin? I sure am! We’ve been having some unusually cold and rainy weather, so the ants haven’t been very active. One warmer afternoon last week, however, I did spot a few ants other than rover ants. They were Solenopsis amblychila workers. Solenopsis amblychila workers [...]
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Have you ever wondered what species of ant is featured in the header of this blog?
This is a worker of my favorite ant species, Camponotus novaeboracensis, the New York carpenter ant. You may have seen the species name written lacking the first a (“noveboracensis“), but the species was originally described as Formica novaeboracensis [...] The ant of the week is one of those amazing ants not many people get to see. Photograph by Michael Branstetter / © AntWeb.org / CC-BY-SA-3.0 from Wikimedia You can probably tell right away that this worker is a leafcutter in the tribe Attini because of the spines and spikes. Ants in the genus Trachymyrmex grow a [...] Pogonomyrmex californicus is a common harvester ant in the Sonoran Desert. Identification: Ants of the genus Pogonomyrmex are generally easy to recognize by the presence of a psammophore, a series of long hairs resembling a beard on the underside of the head. In fact, the root of its name “pogono” means beard in Greek. The species can be [...] |
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