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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Ants (Formicoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Myrmicinae » Stenammini » Smooth Harvester Ants (Veromessor) » Messor pergandei (Veromessor pergandei)
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harvester ant - Veromessor pergandei
Copyright © 2009 Joyce Gross

harvester ant - Veromessor pergandei
Indian Valley, Anza-Borrego State Park, San Diego County, California, USA
March 10, 2009
Is this one of the Messor species?
These ants keep very busy re-arranging the desert floor....

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Contributed by Joyce Gross on 29 March, 2009 - 1:37am
Last updated 1 June, 2009 - 9:41pm

Moved
Moved from Messor.
… Joyce Gross, 1 June, 2009 - 9:41pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… Joyce Gross, 2 April, 2009 - 1:08am login or register to post comments

This is indeed a Messor species
Maybe the widespread all black M. pergandei.
… Richard Vernier, 1 April, 2009 - 3:19pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks Richard
These were definitely widespread ... well, all over the parts of Anza-Borrego where I was, anyway.
… Joyce Gross, 2 April, 2009 - 1:10am login or register to post comments

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