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Does anyone else do this to associate scientific names of ants?


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#1 Offline Foogoo - Posted December 27 2014 - 8:35 PM

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I can't be the only one who tries to remember scientific names of ants by associating them with a descriptor. This is what I know so far, share how you remember them!

 

Linepithema humile - #$@% Argentine ants. The bane of my house every summer.

Pogonomyrmex - Harvester ants. Ant farm ants, probably the second ant I recognized as a kid.

Dorymyrmex insanus - Insane ants, called that for a reason.

Camponotus - Carpenter ants, fat queen, spidery looking workers.

Crematogaster - Heart butts.

Acromyrmex versicolor - Leaf cutting fungus farmers (though I've never seen in the wild).

Myrmecocystus - Honeypot ants you see on Nova, I've also yet to encounter.

Solenopsis - Teeny fire ants.

Veromessor - Black Pogonomyrmex I always see up around Bishop, CA.

Pheidole - Big heads. Yet to see in the wild.


Camponotus vicinus, Crematogaster 1, Crematogaster 2, Formica francoeuri, *, *, Myrmecocystus testaceus, Novomessor cockerelli, Pheidole hyatti, Pogonomyrmex californicus, Pogonomyrmex rugosus, Solenopsis invicta


#2 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 27 2014 - 8:37 PM

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Yup!



#3 Offline dspdrew - Posted December 27 2014 - 9:21 PM

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Veromessor is a black (for the most part) harvester ant, but not a Pogo.


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#4 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 27 2014 - 9:34 PM

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Veromessor is a black (for the most part) harvester ant, but not a Pogonomyrmex.

Oh come on, do they not look like polymorphic Pogonomyrmex? :D



#5 Offline James C. Trager - Posted December 28 2014 - 7:55 AM

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Or like really robust, black fire ants? Problem is, all myrmicines look alike. :rolleyes:



#6 Offline Mercutia - Posted December 28 2014 - 10:25 AM

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I call Crematogaster ants heart butt ants too. =D



#7 Offline dean_k - Posted December 28 2014 - 10:31 AM

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Dorymyrmex insanus - Insane ants, called that for a reason.

 

How are they "insane" ? I am just curious.



#8 Offline Foogoo - Posted December 28 2014 - 11:22 AM

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How are they "insane" ? I am just curious.

 

 

They run around like little psychos when they're disturbed.

https://www.youtube....h?v=NmXMEF8LHfI

 

What are some ways of recognizing the species I didn't mention? Like Formica?


Camponotus vicinus, Crematogaster 1, Crematogaster 2, Formica francoeuri, *, *, Myrmecocystus testaceus, Novomessor cockerelli, Pheidole hyatti, Pogonomyrmex californicus, Pogonomyrmex rugosus, Solenopsis invicta


#9 Offline dspdrew - Posted December 28 2014 - 11:38 AM

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What's really insane about Dorymyrmex insanus, is what a mess that so called species is.



#10 Offline Foogoo - Posted December 28 2014 - 11:49 AM

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What's really insane about Dorymyrmex insanus, is what a mess that so called species is.

 

I give them respect for at least building legit nests. Linepithema on the other hand, just find whatever cracks they can to nest in and raid my house :mad: .


Camponotus vicinus, Crematogaster 1, Crematogaster 2, Formica francoeuri, *, *, Myrmecocystus testaceus, Novomessor cockerelli, Pheidole hyatti, Pogonomyrmex californicus, Pogonomyrmex rugosus, Solenopsis invicta


#11 Offline BugFinder - Posted December 28 2014 - 6:07 PM

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I can't be the only one who tries to remember scientific names of ants by associating them with a descriptor. This is what I know so far, share how you remember them!

 

Dorymyrmex insanus - Insane ants, called that for a reason.

 

 

Is this the ant I know by the common name, crazy ant?


“If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.”  ― Matshona Dhliwayo

 

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Pogonomyrmex subdentatus

Camponotus Vicinus

Camponotus sansabeanus

Tetramorium (sp)

Pogonomyrmex Californicus

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#12 Offline dspdrew - Posted December 28 2014 - 6:42 PM

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I can't be the only one who tries to remember scientific names of ants by associating them with a descriptor. This is what I know so far, share how you remember them!

 

Dorymyrmex insanus - Insane ants, called that for a reason.

 

 

Is this the ant I know by the common name, crazy ant?

 

Probably not. Dorymyrmex are also known as Cone ants.


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#13 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 28 2014 - 9:00 PM

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I can't be the only one who tries to remember scientific names of ants by associating them with a descriptor. This is what I know so far, share how you remember them!

 

Dorymyrmex insanus - Insane ants, called that for a reason.

 

 

Is this the ant I know by the common name, crazy ant?

 

Crazy ants are the genus of Nylanderia and Paratrechina.


I call Crematogaster ants heart butt ants too. =D

Who doesn't?


Or like really robust, black fire ants? Problem is, all myrmicines look alike. :rolleyes:

To an extent...


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