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Photo#1017494
Shining Amazon Ant - Polyergus lucidus

Shining Amazon Ant - Polyergus lucidus
Shaw Nature Reserve, Franklin County, Missouri, USA
September 3, 2014
Size: 5.5mm
These two kidnapper ant workers were milling about the nest entrance shortly before one of their last brood-robbing raids of the season.
Ant the upper left is the host species Formica incerta.