After my neighbor mowed down a blackberry thicket, I noticed several of these rather large, fast ants crawling about. They had black heads, orange bodies, and the abdomens varied from more black to more orange. They are about the same size as a black carpenter ant, but a little more slender. The closest thing I could find was a black headed sugar ant, but those are endemic to Australia so I’m really hoping that’s not it. They are super quick so it was difficult to get a quality picture of one