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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 » Pogonomyrmecini » Harvester Ants (Pogonomyrmex) » occidentalis complex (Pogonomyrmex occidentalis complex)
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red harvester ants hunting - Pogonomyrmex
Copyright © 2009 Andrew Williams

red harvester ants hunting - Pogonomyrmex
Lakewood, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
June 2, 2007
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Contributed by Andrew Williams on 25 April, 2009 - 1:39pm
Last updated 26 July, 2019 - 9:29pm

Moved
Moved from Harvester Ants.
… Steven Wang, 26 July, 2019 - 9:29pm login or register to post comments

Sorry, I am not good at identifying species from arid places.
I am not really good at identifying dessert species. It is of coarse a Pogonomyrmex, and P. barbatus seems to fit very nicely.
… Ant Catcher11, 9 May, 2009 - 11:15pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks
Thanks for having a look. Knowing the genus is helpful. I'll poke around for pics of P. barbatus to compare.
… Andrew Williams, 10 May, 2009 - 11:27am login or register to post comments

 
Without being able to see the
Without being able to see the ants closer P. barbatus works for me. Did you see the nest they were from if so what sort of structure was it?? Low and flat, tall, conical??
… Gordon C. Snelling, 25 May, 2009 - 7:42am login or register to post comments

 
ant closeup, mound
Thanks for looking at this.
I can't recall what the mound was like this time. I don't remember seeing one of the giant mounds around though.
What would you need to see closer on the ants to tell species? I can post a blowup of a feature. I've got a series of images of them.
… Andrew Williams, 25 May, 2009 - 9:21am login or register to post comments

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