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9003183 Camponotus - Camponotus pennsylvanicus - female
Copyright © 2012 Rob Curtis

9003183 Camponotus - Camponotus pennsylvanicus - Female
Skokie Lagoons, Cook County, Illinois, USA
July 19, 2012
Size: ~3/4"
Contributed by Rob Curtis on 4 August, 2012 - 1:31pm
Last updated 10 August, 2012 - 11:08am

Moved
Nice picture of an incipient (young) colony of this abundant eastern carpenter ant species. It is likely the queen reared all the rest after flying, mating and building a small nest (under bark?) back in May. Her abdomen appears quite depleted of fat stores she would have had when she left her parent colony, visible in this specimen:
… James C. Trager, 10 August, 2012 - 11:08am

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