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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) » Myrmicinae » Attini » Fungus Growing Ants (Attina) » Leaf-cutting Ants (Atta) » Texas Leaf-cutting Ant (Atta texana)
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Big heads - Atta texana
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Big heads - Atta texana
Allen Acres, Pitkin, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, USA
April 30, 2021
These ants were cutting up and carrying off the sheets!

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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 9 May, 2021 - 10:19pm
Last updated 10 May, 2021 - 2:15pm

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… Tyler Hedlund, 10 May, 2021 - 2:15pm login or register to post comments

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It looks like the state didn't save. These look like Atta - definitely within Attina in the least due to the spines on the head. In the meantime, I can see if I can manually run them through a key. But the behavior as leaf-cutter ants would make complete sense (albeit those would make some very large and unpigmented leaves).
… Jonathan Hoskins, 10 May, 2021 - 3:48am login or register to post comments

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