Going to try to get some good microscope pictures. I got another specimen today. Luckily the nests are only about 1.5 miles away from our house.
When I first got interested in ants, I was curious to see how many interesting species I could close to where I lived. At the time I lived in Costa Mesa, so I looked all over OC urban and suburban areas west of Jamboree and Portola Parkway (in other words nowhere near any wilderness), in the most likely places (parks and any small undisturbed pieces of land). I even checked some spots in Huntington Beach, but never found much more than Argentine Ants, Dorymyrmex insanus, Pogonomyrmex californicus, and Solenopsis xyloni. I did find some Formica francoeuri Can you PM me the exact location of these Formica nests, I might want to check them out sometime if I'm in the area. I grew up in HB, and lived there for 23 years.
