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Red Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)
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Copyright © 2008
Danny Mims
big red ants -
Pogonomyrmex barbatus
rural, Denton County, Texas, USA
April 1, 2008
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Contributed by
Danny Mims
on 4 April, 2008 - 1:06am
Last updated 2 February, 2019 - 4:56pm
Moved
Moved from
Harvester Ants
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Steven Wang
, 2 February, 2019 - 4:56pm
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Red Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex sp.) - workers
One of the several wholly red species of this genus. Workers seem to be roughly the same size, and lack a distinct whitish pubsescence on head and alitrunk. Therefore, I think this one species is not P. badius
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Richard Vernier
, 4 April, 2008 - 4:08am
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Without seeing them in person
Without seeing them in person I would say these may well be P. barbatus.
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Gordon C. Snelling
, 7 April, 2008 - 8:45am
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