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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 » Acrobat Ants (Crematogaster) » Crematogaster laeviuscula
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Acrobat ants (Crematogaster laeviuscula?) - Crematogaster laeviuscula
Copyright © 2011 Victor Engel

Acrobat ants (Crematogaster laeviuscula?) - Crematogaster laeviuscula
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
August 6, 2011
I've been calling these carpenter ants but they don't like anything I see when a do a search for those words. Here you see them sipping from the nectaries of trumpet vine. They also love my passion flowers and run home with their abdomens raised high or even held over their heads. It's the only kind of ant I have that habitually moves that way when not alarmed.

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Contributed by Victor Engel on 6 August, 2011 - 8:18pm
Last updated 22 December, 2011 - 11:22am

Video of swarming
I'm not sure where to post videos, so I'll post it here. These are likely from the same colony.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfVc9lUhi0U

I'm curious about the very small and that is seen going from right to left about about 1/3 in to the clip, then turns to go to the right, mingling with the others in the corner of the window sill. It's not only smaller than all the others. It runs faster. Is this just another caste of the same species? How many castes are there?
… Victor Engel, 6 June, 2013 - 2:07pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Acrobat Ants.
… James C. Trager, 22 December, 2011 - 11:22am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.
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