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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) » Odorous Ants (Dolichoderinae) » Tapinomini » Tapinoma » Odorous House Ant (Tapinoma sessile)
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Male ants - Tapinoma sessile
Copyright © 2007 Charles Schurch Lewallen

Male ants - Tapinoma sessile
Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, USA
May 15, 2007
Size: aprox. 4mm
I am pretty sure that no identification can be made from this picture but I wonder what they are doing.
They are on the edge of a measuring cup in my kitchen.
Also is there a way to get them and their non winged friends to leave that will not harm then?
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Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 15 May, 2007 - 9:15pm
Last updated 17 March, 2010 - 8:22pm

Females, by the way
Should have mentioned this earlier!
… James C. Trager, 22 October, 2010 - 4:51pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… Charley Eiseman, 17 March, 2010 - 8:22pm login or register to post comments

Dolichoderinae: Tapinoma
Odorous house ants, Tapinoma sessile. Alates are reared in spring, not uncommonly reared in nice warm wall spaces or window frames of folks' houses.
… James C. Trager, 17 March, 2010 - 1:36pm login or register to post comments

This link from an earlier pos
This link from an earlier posting may shed some light. http://bugguide.net/node/view/100408
… Stephen Schueman, 15 May, 2007 - 9:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Ants
Thanks that sheds some light.
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 15 May, 2007 - 9:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Probably not carpenter ants t
Probably not carpenter ants though. Not quite the right shape for those.
… Brad Barnd, 16 May, 2007 - 1:26pm login or register to post comments

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