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#1 Offline yoman503 - Posted July 25 2017 - 1:27 PM

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Color: Brown-Redish

Length: 10 mm

Found in Eastern Canada

Looks like a camponotus pennsylvanicus but in smaller

 

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#2 Offline LC3 - Posted July 25 2017 - 2:02 PM

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Camponotus nearcticus 


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#3 Offline Aaron567 - Posted July 25 2017 - 2:05 PM

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Couldn't it also be Camponotus caryae? I thought nearcticus were all black.



#4 Offline VoidElecent - Posted July 25 2017 - 2:18 PM

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Couldn't it also be Camponotus caryae? I thought nearcticus were all black.

 

C. caryae are the all-black ones. They are also more prevalent in Southern US; whereas C. nearcitus, hence their name, are more common in the North.



#5 Offline Aaron567 - Posted July 25 2017 - 2:26 PM

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Couldn't it also be Camponotus caryae? I thought nearcticus were all black.

 

C. caryae are the all-black ones. They are also more prevalent in Southern US; whereas C. nearcitus, hence their name, are more common in the North.

 

 

Oooh so the black ones I see in my backyard must be caryae then   :)


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#6 Offline VoidElecent - Posted July 25 2017 - 2:31 PM

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Couldn't it also be Camponotus caryae? I thought nearcticus were all black.

 

C. caryae are the all-black ones. They are also more prevalent in Southern US; whereas C. nearcitus, hence their name, are more common in the North.

 

 

Oooh so the black ones I see in my backyard must be caryae then   :)

 

 

Given that you live in Florida, I'd say so.

 

I thought I had a massive C. caryae colony in my front yard for the longest time until I saw a major with a slightly reddish mesosoma. Even though they're both in the Myrmentoma subgenus, they're pretty different; C. nearcticus colonies can get pretty large and inhabit multiple nesting sites where C. caryae colonies typically don't exceed 300-400 workers.



#7 Offline Nathant2131 - Posted July 25 2017 - 3:42 PM

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Actually C. nearcticus can be both red and black. Not sure if that depends on location though. But really I personally would not base a Myrmentoma ID off of color.

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