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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 » Stenammini » Smooth Harvester Ants (Veromessor) » Messor pergandei (Veromessor pergandei)
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desert ant - Veromessor pergandei
Copyright © 2007 Richard C. Hoyer

desert ant - Veromessor pergandei
North Maricopa Wilderness, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
February 24, 2007
Size: small
some kind of harvester ant?

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desert ant - Veromessor pergandei desert ant - Veromessor pergandei desert ant - Veromessor pergandei
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Contributed by Richard C. Hoyer on 27 February, 2007 - 10:48am
Last updated 10 February, 2016 - 11:30am

Moved
Moved from Messor pergandei.
… James C. Trager, 10 February, 2016 - 11:30am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… john and jane balaban, 11 June, 2007 - 12:46pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants.
… john and jane balaban, 11 June, 2007 - 8:17am login or register to post comments

 
Shouldn't this be moved to Messor?
Or onto a new page?
… Ron Hemberger, 11 June, 2007 - 11:20am login or register to post comments

 
Sorry, we were changing Hymenoptera
and moved all the ant images that were sitting on the old Suborder page to the Family page. Must confess we didn't even look at the images, just moved them. Will look into this.
… john and jane balaban, 11 June, 2007 - 12:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Hey, you've got a lot to do. No apology needed.
Glad I was able to help, assuming you call what I did that. Basically, when you indicate a move, the poster is alerted, so then they have a chance to straighten things out. I just happened to subscribe to this one, so I butted in.
… Ron Hemberger, 11 June, 2007 - 6:12pm login or register to post comments

Richard definitely a harveste
Richard definitely a harvester, Messor pergandei. This species is THE desert harvester and is the only ant currently active at my house in the Mojave. The are about the most cold active desert ant around.
… Gordon C. Snelling, 27 February, 2007 - 6:42pm login or register to post comments

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