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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets (Vespoidea) » Ants (Formicidae) » Myrmicinae » Harvester Ants (Pogonomyrmex) » Red Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)
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Ants in conflict - Pogonomyrmex barbatus - female
Copyright © 2006 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department - Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D.

Ants in conflict - Pogonomyrmex barbatus - Female
World Birding Center HQ at Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
July 5, 2006
I am basing my identification of the larger ants on some comments by a few visiting ant researchers (mainly Gary Umphrey and his colleagues) and what I was able to skim from books and Google while filling in the Guide page for this species. I have no idea what the smaller ants are, against which the harvesters were defending their nest entrance.
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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 21 January, 2007 - 5:29pm

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