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red and black ant - Formica incerta
Copyright © 2008 tom murray

red and black ant - Formica incerta
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
April 5, 2008
Size: 6mm
I found some of these ants under a piece of bark on the ground and they had these springtails with them.
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Contributed by tom murray on 6 April, 2008 - 9:36pm
Last updated 7 April, 2008 - 9:25am

After checking
Myrmecos, it looks like a good match, and Alex's photo was taken in neighboring N.Y.
… tom murray, 7 April, 2008 - 9:25am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… tom murray, 7 April, 2008 - 9:20am login or register to post comments

Formica sp. - worker
Seemingly a member of the pallidefulva group, although not F. pallidefulva itself, who is wholly light orange brown.
… Richard Vernier, 7 April, 2008 - 9:05am login or register to post comments

 
It's Formica pallidefulva
The Formica pallidefulva group was recently revised taxonomically. See this article for all the gory details: http://antbase.org/ants/publications/21293/21293.pdf .

Anyway, your ant is F. pallidefulva, itself, which contrary to popular opinion, comes in a variety of colors, ranging from quite dark brown to bright coppery yellow. The pattern in the picture is the most common in the northern part of the geographic distribution.
… James C. Trager, 4 June, 2008 - 3:12pm login or register to post comments

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