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Species Camponotus modoc - Western Black Carpenter Ant

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A field guide to the ants of New England

By Ellison et al. 2012. Yale University Press. 398 pp.
Yale University Press, 2012

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Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Elizabeth J. Farnsworth, and Gary D. Alpert. 2012. A field guide to the ants of New England. Yale University Press, New Haven. xv + 398 pp.

This book is the first user-friendly regional guide devoted to ants—the “little things that run the world.” Lavishly illustrated with more than 500 line drawings, 300-plus photographs, and regional distribution maps as composite illustrations for every species, this guide will introduce amateur and professional naturalists and biologists, teachers and students, and environmental managers and pest-control professionals to more than 140 ant species found in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada.

Contributed by Mike Quinn on 9 October, 2012 - 5:59pm

The ants of North America

By William Steel Creighton
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University 104: 1-585, 1950

Many keys, descriptions, and plates useful for identification.

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Contributed by Edward L. Ruden on 26 October, 2011 - 8:20am

Exotic ants in Florida

By Deyrup M., Davis L., Cover S.
Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 126: 293-326, 2000

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Contributed by v belov on 5 February, 2011 - 11:08am

An updated list of Florida ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

By M. Deyrup
Florida Entomologist 86: 43-48, 2003

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Contributed by v belov on 5 February, 2011 - 11:05am

A synoptic review of the ants of California (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

By Ward P.S.
Zootaxa 936: 1–68, 2005

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Contributed by v belov on 4 February, 2011 - 7:56pm

Phylogeny, classification, and species-level taxonomy of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

By P.S. Ward
Zootaxa 1668: 549–563, 2007

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Contributed by v belov on 20 December, 2010 - 9:48pm

The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct

By E. O. Wilson & Bert Holldobler
W. W. Norton & Company, 2010

Contributed by J. Anderson on 11 November, 2010 - 8:36am

Ants of North America--A Guide to the Genera

By Brian L. Fisher and Stefan P. Cover
University of California Press, 2007

Release date is listed on amazon.com as November 2, 2007.
ISBN-10: 0520254228, ISBN-13: 978-0520254220

Contributed by Cotinis on 1 September, 2007 - 7:30am

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