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Each summer, piles of dead individual of this ant species appear in gutters and bare depressions in soil. I believe these result from nocturnal or subterranean intercolonial battles, since alates of both sexes plus a great number of worker carcasses are in these "bone piles".
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Invades human habitat, yards, parks, plant nurseries, soil/mulch/compost depots, largely replaces native soil-dwelling ants. Common in many Missouri cities and some in adjacent Kansas and Missouri.
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Hormiga Norteña Cultivadora de Hongos (Trachymyrmex septentrionalis)Autor
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At Shaw Nature Reserve, dry mesic post oak woodland.
(Sorry about the lousy image of the ants, but they're so distinctive, it works.)
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Under paving stone in my yard, where these have nearly eliminated all native soil-dwelling ants. (Arboreals doing okay.)
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Formica dolosaAutor
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Characteristic of low fertility, acid soil sites with scattered or no trees. Picture doesn't show characteristic setation, but dense gaster pubescence and numerous mesosoma erect setae observed under the scope. 5mm. long.
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As the common name says, little and black, about 1.5mm. At cookie bait. At another bait station, these were on top of the cookie and Solenopsis texana were underneath it.
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Pheidole tysoniAutor
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At cookie bait, along mowed path. Minor workers about 1.4mm, majors about 2.0mm.
Very abundant at this site
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At cookie bait, along mowed path. Very abundant at this site.
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Regina grahamiiAutor
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Caught at a pool in the swale, and shown to group by Bruce Schuette.
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Saki Cariblanco (Pithecia pithecia)Autor
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Native to northern Amazon Basin. Zoo has some that breed.
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