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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 » Myrmicini » Myrmica
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ant - Myrmica
Copyright © 2014 tom murray

ant - Myrmica
Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
August 27, 2014
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Contributed by tom murray on 28 August, 2014 - 9:18pm
Last updated 31 January, 2019 - 2:19pm

Moved
Moved from Myrmicinae.
… Steven Wang, 31 January, 2019 - 2:19pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… John S. Ascher, 6 May, 2015 - 8:22am login or register to post comments

Could you add some habitat (s
Could you add some habitat (soil, vegetation) info about this one, Tom? Some of this genus are specialists that way.
… James C. Trager, 29 August, 2014 - 12:48pm login or register to post comments

 
Showed up at light sheet
The lights are at the edge of a wetland in a mixed woodland with white pine, white oak and maple being the dominant trees. The soil is sandy with a good leaf cover with plenty of undergrowth from partridge berry, buckthorn, witch hazel, blueberry and viburnum. There are some dead oak logs on the ground close by.
… tom murray, 29 August, 2014 - 3:46pm login or register to post comments

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