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[Ender Ants]

1. Location: Mojave Desert, Nevada side

2. Date: March 20, 2018
3. Habitat: Desert
4. Length: About 2 - 4mm
5. Color: Dark Orange, with yellow abdomen
6. Distinguishing characteristics: Has a black circle like symbol on their abdomen. Not all are identically on the same part of their abdomen
7. Distinguishing behavior: Slow moving
8. Nest description: Small cone like nests that are similar to Dorymyrmex nests.

 

Haven't spotted any alates, but were moving out small gravel from their nest. Either they are getting ready for a nuptial flight or they just got out of hibernation. The closest species that I could find that could be these ones were Temnothorax curvispinosus.

 

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Not sure which one works, as I cannot add any pictures through gallery, and I can't find any other free website that lets you paste a direct link

 

 

EDIT: Ok, I got it working. Thanks everyone from the previous post who helped!

Edited by Ender Ants, June 3 2018 - 6:08 PM.

[YsTheAnt]

Leaning towards Pheidole gilvescens, as @gcsnelling suggested.

Edited by YsTheAnt, June 3 2018 - 10:01 PM.

[Ender Ants]

Leaning towards Pheidole gilvescens, as @gcsnelling suggested.

Yup, most likely that species. Thank you!

[dspdrew]

You know you can edit your original thread, right? Not sure why we needed two threads for the same thing.