Uploaded pic here: http://i.imgur.com/W3JiLf5.jpg
(same pic is attached below within this post):
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Location: Iowa
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Date: 5/25/22
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Habitat: crawling on my home's exterior siding
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Length: barely 1/4" (pictured)
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Coloration: Black gaster, red brown body
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Distinguishing characteristics: This is where it gets weird...
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non-antlike pointy thing on the gaster
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non-antlike small pointy mouth, no typical big "ant jaws" are visible, not even when it ate a tiny drop of honey I provided
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non-antlike antenna long V-shape antenna. Ant antenna usually are like a bent elbow shape.
- non-antlike small clear wings (ant queen wings usually are larger than the body. this thing's wings are tiny, so tiny that I couldn't capture it in pics)
- no ability to fly. The miniscule wings are too small for flight, anyway.
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Anything else: n/a
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Nest: n/a
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Nuptial: n/a
- Pic: ...attached. This thing is so small and moves so fast that it was hard to get good pics, tried my best.
Edited by nofuel11, May 25 2022 - 1:07 PM.
