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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 » Stenammini » Spine-waisted Ants (Aphaenogaster) » Tennessee Collared Ant (Aphaenogaster tennesseensis)
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ant haul - Aphaenogaster tennesseensis
Copyright © 2009 Andrew Williams

ant haul - Aphaenogaster tennesseensis
Overland Park, Johnson County, Kansas, USA
August 18, 2008
Camponotus pennsylvanicus hauled by much smaller who ?

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Contributed by Andrew Williams on 15 June, 2009 - 3:44pm
Last updated 10 August, 2009 - 4:49pm

Moved
Moved from Myrmicinae.
… John R. Maxwell, 23 June, 2009 - 8:13am login or register to post comments

NOT an ID - perhaps a Messor species
See http://nap.entclub.org/NewFiles/Messor%20lobognathus.html

Maybe this species is also found in Kansas.
INTERESTING PHOTOS!
… William Edwards, 15 June, 2009 - 5:40pm login or register to post comments

Cant help with id
but thats a great capture.
… J. Ott, 15 June, 2009 - 3:57pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks
I had some lucky timing with this. What's strange is that this tree is overloaded with the carpenter ants. I don't know where the red guy was intending on taking it, maybe to its own doom... ;)
… Andrew Williams, 15 June, 2009 - 4:02pm login or register to post comments

 
The "red guy" is an Aphaenogaster tenessensis worker
This genus has well-known scavenging habits, and this one worker wanted to carry her C. pennsylvanicus booty to her nest.
Now, this is quite possible that living black carpenters would have tried to prey on her as soon as noticed by them.
… Richard Vernier, 23 June, 2009 - 5:50am login or register to post comments

 
great info.
Thanks for the ID.
… Andrew Williams, 23 June, 2009 - 6:47am login or register to post comments

 
Messor do not live in trees a
Messor do not live in trees and aren't found in Kansas. I don't know what this ant is though. It's in the Myrmicinae subfamily, and might be a Myrmica but I really don't know.
… MrILoveTheAnts, 15 June, 2009 - 11:52pm login or register to post comments

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