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Large Ant with Golden Striped Abdomen - Camponotus pennsylvanicus
Copyright © 2011 Elliotte Rusty Harold

Large Ant with Golden Striped Abdomen - Camponotus pennsylvanicus
Prospect Park, Kings County, New York, USA
September 10, 2011
About the size of a carpenter ant.
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Contributed by Elliotte Rusty Harold on 11 September, 2011 - 7:44am
Last updated 11 September, 2011 - 11:33am

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The lighting of your photo does show the golden pubescence of the gaster of this ant particularly well, and it's possible this specimen has the fuzz a bit more dense or longer than usual. The ant is basically black, and on this well-fed one, the abdominal segments are expanded ("telescoped", if you will), so that the normally hidden and hairless (thus, all black) anterior portions of the tergites are exposed, yielding the banded appearance.
… James C. Trager, 11 September, 2011 - 11:33am login or register to post comments

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