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[jasond1979]

https://m.youtube.co...h?v=WpOF8lWLDEg

Out scouting colonies where I work near San Diego by the ocean. Want to be ready next year to get a queen 👸. Anyways find this medium size colony of what I believe is Pogonomyrmex Californicus and about 18 inches away is a different colony of ants that are almost as big they move in a jerky fashion. And I noticed that every time a Californicus worker would wonder over she would get jumped by one ant and get beat up and run away like her pants were on fire. These ants almost looked like they had a darkish bottom with a white stripe across it.

I filmed it in slow mo so you could see the action.

1. What ant spieces do you think it is?

2. Would they do well in captivity if you had a queen.

3. Why would they be so close to the Californicus colony if all they are going to do is beat the heck out of them.

Anyhow thanks for ur time watch in HD for better picture

Jason

[Canadian anter]

I will guess myrmecocystus or Novomessor

[Mdrogun]

It might be Formica. That would explain the acid spraying. Honestly, there's no way to tell. We would need closer picks of the worker.

[gcsnelling]

Along the coast it is almost certainly Formica, Pogonomyrmex are notorious wimps. You need to post pictures though.

[dspdrew]

If you held the camera the way you would actually watch a video, your footage would have been almost four times larger.

[drtrmiller]

If you held the camera the way you would actually watch a video, your footage would have been almost four times larger.

You know the camera sensor doesn't actually record fewer pixels when recording in portrait orientation, right?

Your computer's display centers and scales the footage properly to fit, given your screen's orientation and aspect ratio. If your display were adjusted to portrait orientation, it would fill the entire screen.

Your view of the world being different from someone else's, is excuse for neither ignorance nor rudeness.

[jasond1979]

Good points guys I've marked where the nest is, and will capture one and try to take a picture of the aggressor magnified. I think the Californicus was getting sprayed.

[Canadian anter]

Wouldn't Formica be faster? I have never seen a Formica not run at super speed

[jasond1979]

Wouldn't Formica be faster? I have never seen a Formica not run at super speed

They actually are moving quite fast in sports I filmed it in my iphones slo mo mode

[dspdrew]

 

If you held the camera the way you would actually watch a video, your footage would have been almost four times larger.

You know the camera sensor doesn't actually record fewer pixels when recording in portrait orientation, right?

Your computer's display centers and scales the footage properly to fit, given your screen's orientation and aspect ratio. If your display were adjusted to portrait orientation, it would fill the entire screen.

Your view of the world being different from someone else's, is excuse for neither ignorance nor rudeness.

 

 

Someone's sour today.

 

BTW, if it was just "my view of the world", then televisions and movie screens would be tall instead of wide.