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Unidentified Ant With Hitchhiker - Camponotus castaneus
Copyright © 2010 Jon Hart

Unidentified Ant With Hitchhiker - Camponotus castaneus
Montrose, Laurens County, Georgia, USA
March 19, 2010
Size: at least 12mm
Talk about killing two birds with one stone. I know next to nothing about ants, but am willing to learn. Is this another,lighter variant of carpenter ant? And just what is that on the petiole just to the front of the abdomen? Mite it be a spider? Or mite it not? Found walking rapidly straight across the yard to next door (apparently on a mission of its own making).

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Unidentified Ant With Hitchhiker - Camponotus castaneus Unidentified Ant With Hitchhiker
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Contributed by Jon Hart on 22 March, 2010 - 6:19pm
Last updated 24 March, 2010 - 1:47pm

Moved
Moved from Carpenter Ants.
… John R. Maxwell, 24 March, 2010 - 1:47pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John F. Carr, 23 March, 2010 - 5:52am login or register to post comments

This is indeed a Carpenter Ant minor worker (Camponotus sp.)
No clue about the white thing on 1rst tergum.
… Richard Vernier, 23 March, 2010 - 3:23am login or register to post comments

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