Queen Ant - Formica
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:
