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Carpenter Ants - Camponotus - female
Copyright © 2007 Ilona L.

Carpenter Ants - Camponotus - Female
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
March 25, 2007
I found this group of what I think are carpenter ants under the bark of a fallen tree this afternoon. Temperature was in the high 70s today.
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Contributed by Ilona L. on 26 March, 2007 - 1:27am
Last updated 8 December, 2010 - 9:33pm

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… Ilona L., 26 March, 2007 - 10:47am login or register to post comments

Carpenter Ants (Camponotus sp.) - incipient colony
The queen's much larger size helps to recognize her easily. Later in the development of this young society, some of the major workers will be almost as big as her. Minor workers of this one black and ashy species could easily be confused with Formica ants of the fusca group. But even at this level of resolution, the queen and the medium worker lower left have a distinctive "carpenter" head.
There are no males yet, and it will maybe take several years before the first ones appear. These are always winged (and die without shedding their wings, contrary to queens) in this genus.
… Richard Vernier, 26 March, 2007 - 10:17am login or register to post comments

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