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Ants tending scales or aphids?
Copyright © 2006 Mark Dreiling

Ants tending scales or aphids?
Bartlesville, Washington County, Oklahoma, USA
July 7, 2006
After seeing the recent interest in the first photo I went back to the original three files and cropped out the small regions of good focus. These three added files are at the original resolution.

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Ants tending scales or aphids? Ants tending scales or aphids? Ants tending scales or aphids? Ants tending scales or aphids?
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Contributed by Mark Dreiling on 14 November, 2006 - 2:54am
Last updated 19 April, 2008 - 7:03pm

Moved
Moved from Plant-parasitic Hemipterans.
… Chuck Entz, 19 April, 2008 - 7:03pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Acrobat Ants.
… Chuck Entz, 2 April, 2007 - 1:24am login or register to post comments

Ortheziidae maybe
I'm not familiar with this species (or that area), but they look like Ortheziids to me.
… Donald S. Chandler, 14 November, 2006 - 6:26pm login or register to post comments

The ants are a Crematogaster
The ants are a Crematogaster species.
… Gordon C. Snelling, 14 November, 2006 - 7:30am login or register to post comments

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