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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 » Crematogastrini » Pavement Ants (Tetramorium) » (Immigrant) Pavement Ant (Tetramorium immigrans)
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tiny stinging ant - Tetramorium immigrans
Copyright © 2009 tom murray

tiny stinging ant - Tetramorium immigrans
Shirley, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
September 20, 2009
Size: 3mm
While shaking branches looking for caterpillars today, it felt like another mosquito was biting my arm, but when I looked it was this small ant stinging me. It left a small welt that lasted a couple hours.

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Contributed by tom murray on 20 September, 2009 - 8:01pm
Last updated 26 October, 2009 - 9:19am

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Richard, thanks for the ID and info. It got me on the inside part of my arm, but wasn't much of a sting.
… tom murray, 26 October, 2009 - 9:19am login or register to post comments

Pavement Ant (Tetramorium cf. caespitum) - worker
The short stinger of these small Myrmicine Ants is not always able to pierce throughout the skin, and then only where this latter is very thin and soft. I remember having been stung fairly often when I was a child, but only very rarely since I've grown up.
But they are really nasty tempered when disturbed.
… Richard Vernier, 20 October, 2009 - 7:20am login or register to post comments

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