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Unknown Ant - Pogonomyrmex maricopa
Copyright © 2015 Nathan C. Taylor

Unknown Ant - Pogonomyrmex maricopa
Boquillas Canyon, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas, USA
October 11, 2014
The ant is removing immature fruits of a rare plant known as Euphorbia golondrina. The soil type is sand.

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Unknown Ant - Pogonomyrmex maricopa Unknown Ant - Pogonomyrmex maricopa
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Contributed by Nathan C. Taylor on 29 January, 2015 - 1:57pm
Last updated 1 March, 2019 - 1:26am

Moved
Moved from Harvester Ants.
… Steven Wang, 1 March, 2019 - 1:26am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… James C. Trager, 16 February, 2015 - 4:53pm login or register to post comments

Pogonomyrmex
Harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex. Not sure the species - would be neat/fitting if it were _P. bigbendensis_ but the postpetiole doesn't look right to me. Please do wait for an expert - they may be better able to give you a species here.
… Seth Burgess, 2 February, 2015 - 12:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Re: Pogonomyrmex
Thank you! This image in particular is of interest to me because of the ant's interaction with the plant (the only location I have been able to confirm for the E. golondrina is at Boquillas Canyon). I appreciate you identifying it to genus.
… Nathan C. Taylor, 6 February, 2015 - 8:24am login or register to post comments

 
[i]Pogonomyrmex[i] is a genus
[i]Pogonomyrmex[i] is a genus of seed-harvester ants, with no particular affinity for particular species of plant seeds. This may be P*texanus, but that's a species I have no experience with, so hard to say.
… James C. Trager, 16 February, 2015 - 4:48pm login or register to post comments

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