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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) » rufa group (Formica rufa group) » Formica integra
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Ant - Formica integra
Copyright © 2009 Kathleen Chute

Ant - Formica integra
Dover, Stewart County, Tennessee, USA
June 9, 2009
Size: 1/4 inch
Hi Hope you all have an Ant expert on line. These Ants are very curious to me. The actually excavated a trench along the travel line. They were not alone. The whole area and in the forest near the Tennessee River was full of them. They were caring debris, Carrying babies, and carrying food. The Trench that they were walking through was almost a 1 half inch deep. Seemed that all these trenches belonged to different colonies. I wanted to add that the trench these Ants had was about 2 inches wide in some places along the walking line.
Thank you for any help
Kathleen

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Contributed by Kathleen Chute on 9 June, 2009 - 9:11pm
Last updated 17 February, 2011 - 12:34am

Moved
Moved from Formica.
… Ben Coulter, 17 February, 2011 - 12:34am login or register to post comments

Formica integroides
Both from appearance and the described behavior of these ants, most likely an eastern NA member of the F. rufa-group, Formica integra
… James C. Trager, 4 August, 2009 - 5:13pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you so much Kathleen
Thank you so much
Kathleen
… Kathleen Chute, 5 August, 2009 - 6:13am login or register to post comments

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