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Various red ants...Amazon Ants (Polyergus lucidus species group) Mixed upland hardwood forest in Orange Co., NC 24 June 2009 This species of ants just successfully raided another ant colony, and I watched and listened for several minutes as they scurried along the leaf litter in a long parade carrying lots of pupae that will be enslaved. | |
Amazon Ants (Polyergus lucidus species group) Mixed upland hardwood forest in Orange Co., NC 24 June 2009 | |
Amazon Ants (Polyergus lucidus species group) Mixed upland hardwood forest in Orange Co., NC 24 June 2009 |
Formica pallidefulva species group Orange Co., NC 14 Mar 2008 These fairly large ants are very common under logs in fields & woods in the the NC piedmont. | |
Formica pallidefulva species group Orange Co., NC 14 Mar 2008 | |
Prenolepis imparis; thanks to James Trager for ID Orange Co., NC 14 Mar 2008 Some researchers have suggested this could be a Formica pallidefulva species group queen ant. | |
Prenolepis imparis; thanks to James Trager for ID Orange Co., NC 14 Mar 2008 | |
Prenolepis imparis; thanks to James Trager for ID Orange Co., NC 14 Mar 2008 |
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