The challenge: to see how many species of ants I could find in Tucson, Arizona in two hours.
Species 2. Forelius
Most likely they are Forelius mcccooki, the species I have identified in Phoenix, but because this was a public place I didn’t take samples.
Chris Schmidt indicates that Forelius are probably the ants you are most [...]
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 [...]