Small gold ants around entire yard - Upstate NY, 5/19/19 - Ant ID Requests

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#1 Offline Nawor3565 - Posted May 19 2019 - 3:11 PM

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Just a quick ID thread. I was at a friend's house helping with some gardening, and we noticed that these smallish golden ants were under EVERYTHING. Almost every rock we picked up, there were dozens of them underneath. But, they don't seem to make any anthills that we could find. I've got a picture, I didn't have anything for scale but I'd say they're around 0.3-0.5cm. Found near a forest in upstate NY. Thanks!

#2 Offline AntsBC - Posted May 19 2019 - 3:21 PM

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Acanthomyops - group Lasius.

It's virtually impossible to identify workers in this subgenus without very close photos of the ant's pubescence and mandibles, but just going off of your location, I would presume that these would be Lasius claviger.

https://www.antwiki....homyops_workers

Edited by AntsBC, May 19 2019 - 3:38 PM.

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