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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) » Formicinae » Formicini » Wood ants, mound ants, & field ants (Formica) » fusca group (Formica fusca group) » Formica subsericea
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Black carpenter ant - Formica subsericea
Copyright © 2008 Shelly Cox

Black carpenter ant - Formica subsericea
Savannah, Andrew County, Missouri, USA
June 11, 2008
Black carpenter
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Contributed by Shelly Cox on 11 June, 2008 - 6:44pm
Last updated 20 January, 2013 - 12:10pm

Moved
Ooops! Moved from Oleander Aphid.
… James C. Trager, 2 April, 2010 - 11:00am login or register to post comments

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Formicinae: Formica
Not carpenter ants, these are the common soil-dwelling and mound-building ant Formica subsericea.
… James C. Trager, 2 April, 2010 - 10:55am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks James, I appreciate yo
Thanks James, I appreciate you taking the time to correctly ID these ants. They were quite large, and we just seem to call all large black ants carpenter ants. It is easy to forget there are many types of ants.
… Shelly Cox, 2 April, 2010 - 2:54pm login or register to post comments

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