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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) » fusca group (Formica fusca group)
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Ant - Formica
Copyright © 2006 Mardon Erbland

Ant - Formica
Logy Bay, Northeast Avalon, Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
May 29, 2006
Size: 5 mm
The ant is on my hand in this photo.

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Contributed by Mardon Erbland on 29 May, 2006 - 6:45pm
Last updated 12 February, 2011 - 6:37pm

Moved
Moved from Formica.
… Ben Coulter, 12 February, 2011 - 6:37pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… George Waldren, 25 June, 2007 - 3:49pm login or register to post comments

Formica sp. (fusca group) - worker
This could well be Formica fusca itself.
… Richard Vernier, 30 May, 2006 - 5:29am login or register to post comments

 
It sure looks like it!
After reading your suggestion, I compared my photos with this photo at myrmecos.net and they certainly do look alike. Thanks. It's interesting that this all black Formica was on our driveway and there seems to be a nest of the red and black Formica under a rock in our back yard. This ant was VERY fast and that made it extremely hard to photograph. He just wouldn't stop to pose.
… Mardon Erbland, 30 May, 2006 - 6:38am login or register to post comments

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