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Ant mystery - two populations under rock - Lasius

Ant mystery - two populations under rock - Lasius
Beeler Reservoir, Modoc National Forest, Modoc County, California, USA
April 28, 2017
Size: ca 3 mm?
I flipped over a large rock and found two clusters of differently colored ants that appeared to be segregated. I am putting all of the images together for now, but can separate them later as needed. There was a group of dark ants with a sharp forked "tail" near the back of the thorax, and a group of pale red ants that seem to be a different species? Are these interacting groups somehow, or is this just a coincidence?

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Moved from Ants.

The pale red ants identified as Lasius sp. by G. Snelling from images I posted to iNaturalist. I guess these two populations of ants were just coincidentally under the same rock? I split off the dark Crematogaster ants here:


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