Archive for the ‘Ants’ Category.
22nd December 2007, 06:00 am
These ants are all over our yard. They tend to live in pretty substantial nests under objects, and they sent queens like this one out on mating flights in the middle of July, when I caught her:
You might notice that she only has one wing. The other had been torn off, probably because she’d finished her mating flight and was looking for a good place to make a nest. The reason the other one looks a bit funny, is I had tried to stick her down with a drop of honey so that I could get a good picture of her underside:
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14th June 2007, 03:11 pm
This time, we have several different individuals of a single species. First, in April, we started occasionally seeing worker ants in and around the house, like this one:
This is pretty clearly a black carpenter ant, Camponotus pennsylvanicus. As ants go, these are pretty big, about 8 mm long. It is possible to get them to bite, say, the edge of your fingernail, but they don’t so much hurt as just hang on. Anyway, after seeing these for a while, this next one showed up on the kitchen floor, so I refrigerated her for photography:
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