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Ant - Camponotus
Copyright © 2004 Charles Schurch Lewallen

Ant - Camponotus
East Central, Oklahoma, USA
December 27, 2004
I found these ants while I was having an old and almost dead hackberry tree cut down. They were inside the trunk.
Size about 6mm.
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Contributed by Charles Schurch Lewallen on 29 December, 2004 - 7:34pm
Last updated 12 March, 2005 - 2:35pm

Carpenter ant
I will venture that this is a carpenter ant, Camponotus sp. Many carpenter ants actually nest in the soil. They do not eat wood as termites do, but merely chew out nesting chambers. There is a new book coming out about carpenter ants of North America, by Laurel Hansen and another author, Cornell University Press.
… Eric R. Eaton, 3 January, 2005 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

 
Carpenter ant
Thanks Eric. When I post this on my site I I have a shot of a section of the trunk which shows the chambers they made.
… Charles Schurch Lewallen, 3 January, 2005 - 3:25pm login or register to post comments

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