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Odorous House Ant (Tapinoma sessile)
Photo#489228
Copyright © 2011
Scott Peden
Ant -
Tapinoma sessile
Big Basin, HQ area, Santa Cruz County, California, USA
February 6, 2006
Size: 2.5+ mm?
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Contributed by
Scott Peden
on 6 February, 2011 - 8:35pm
Last updated 31 May, 2011 - 4:03pm
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James C. Trager
, 31 May, 2011 - 4:03pm
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Tapinoma, I suppose.
Another option is a minor worker of
Liometopum
luctuosum, but can't say with these images.
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James C. Trager
, 19 February, 2011 - 2:26pm
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redwood post
This ant was rapidly moving all over the top of an old redwood post, where springtails have been photographed in the past, if that is any help.
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Scott Peden
, 19 February, 2011 - 8:17pm
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Perhaps more useful would be
Perhaps more useful would be more general habitat info, though not on a mature oak suggests not
Liometopum
, and rather,
Tapinoma
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James C. Trager
, 21 April, 2011 - 5:14pm
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Habitat
This ring of redwood posts at Big Basin Headquarters, is around a field of mostly torrent sedge, there are some Mature redwoods on one side, a Douglas fir hangs over one corner, and several Santa Cruz Mountains Coastal Live Oaks over about a third of the ring.
Nearly half of it has no trees hanging over it, except a younger SCM LO, and is in the sun. I find most of the ants around there in the sunny areas, and maybe a tad closer to the Coastal Redwoods.
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Scott Peden
, 21 April, 2011 - 5:22pm
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, 7 February, 2011 - 11:02am
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