Things have not been easy this year.
It’s good to know that ants, like these Crematogaster, are still going about their business.
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What is this ant doing out and about this time of year? It is December, after all. There hasn’t been rain for weeks. My son found her walking on the driveway. She’s definitely a Solenopsis because the antennal club is two segments, not three. It seems rather odd, but other species of fire ants are thought to have [...] Once again, these ants are found in firewood. At first glance the workers look somewhat like Camponotus pennsylvanicus carpenter ant workers. This worker is in the 6.5-7 mm range. The surprise comes when an alate comes crawling out of a tunnel. At this scale you probably still can’t see the difference. That alate is much smaller than an [...] During a recent foray into helping someone gather firewood, I found some interesting ants that live in less-than-sound wood. Take these acrobat ants, Genus Crematogaster. Nice spines on the propodeum! |
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