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[dspdrew]

Anhzor found this sometime last year and kept it. He recently gave it to me to put on my microscope, so here's the disturbing images.
 

 

 

 

[jimbodw07]

Amazing images! But still, what a horrible way to die!

[noctilus]

Fascinating! Do you have an idea what exactly that worm might be?
Great pictures, BTW

[dspdrew]

Thanks. I guess it's most likely a Mermithid nematode.

[Gregory2455]

That thing probably spreads like a plague in colonies. Was that a worker from a captive colony? Or was it caught out of the wild?

[Anhzor]

I found this guy digging up a nest in my backyard around winter of 2013 to early spring of this year.

[Mercutia]

Nematode for sure. I remember having to identify them in my Diversity of Organisms university class. And that's when they were still alive and wriggling. Ewwww.

[Gregory2455]

I had some of these burst out of a couple tadpoles I was keeping a little while back...

[Gregory2455]

I found this guy digging up a nest in my backyard around winter of 2013 to early spring of this year.

You have Pogonomyrmex in your backyard? Lucky. Best I could find in mine was at max Solenopsis molesta, and a tiny Nylanderia sp.

[Anhzor]

I have accidently dug up point Pogonomyrmex queen beforeby accident

[dspdrew]

You have Pogonomyrmex in your backyard? Lucky. Best I could find in mine was at max Solenopsis molesta, and a tiny Nylanderia sp.

Haha, he lives in the middle of the city too.