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Ant with prey
Copyright © 2008 John F. Carr

Ant with prey
Burlington, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 1, 2008
Size: 9mm
An ant was hauling this dead-looking critter around. Up a rock. Across a rock. Down a rock about where it came from. Finally another ant came to help and together they hauled it into a crack.

Posted to ID for the prey. Is it an immature roach? (Another picture showed small wings.)

I assume the ant is a Formica fusca group, like the others from the same area. (Previously posted: hauling an earwig, hauling a geometrid caterpillar. No quiet life of aphid farming for this colony.)

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Contributed by John F. Carr on 1 July, 2008 - 3:01pm
Last updated 1 July, 2008 - 5:48pm

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