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Dracula Ants Video

If you wonder what dracula ants look like, I just found this video.

Forelius Ants on the Move

Sometimes it is hard to conceive how much ants move their colonies around. For example, this week a fairly large Forelius colony showed up in our yard.

Forelius are incredibly fast.

They do slow down when they find something interesting, like this dead honey bee.

What is on the honey bee’s wing? It had just rained so there’s [...]

Surprise! Camponotus festinatus

It finally rained in Arizona. But last week, before it rained, I chased out a bunch of Camponotus festinatus by watering the front yard with a hose.

Cool, there are males with the workers.

Males are usually dark colored, so it was interesting to see golden yellow ones.

In my haste to get a few photographs. I didn’t [...]

Ants With Place Names

How about a challenge today?

I visited two states (United States) last week. Can you tell which states I visited based on the scientific names of these two ants?

Bonus points if you spell the species name of the ants in the second photograph correctly