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[Jesse]

1. I found these ants on my kitchen counter. I've seen them pretty much my entire life and I've always been curious as to what they are, but I've never tried to find out their name and stuff.
3. I've always seen them inside; never outside. I think they live in walls of buildings and stuff.
4.They look to be 1mm in length for workers.
5. They look like they're black all around.
6. They are very, very, very tiny. I had trouble looking at them with a magnifying glass and taking clear pictures was difficult so I don't think I have anything good, but I'll give it a shot. Hopefully these can be identified.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry about the picture quality. I don't have a real camera so I had to use an iphone camera. I can try to get more pics if it's required.

 

Oh! And they're commonly called sugar ants in my region, if that helps at all.

Edited by Jesse, May 31 2014 - 10:51 PM.

[Crystals]

Tapinoma sessile probably.

Interestingly, this species has no ability to distinguish one colony from another in their species.  So they are all friends  and are known to split, bud, and re-merge their colonies with no problems.

[dspdrew]

Noway is it T. sessile, those are about 3mm in length. I think these are Brachymyrmex.

[specimen24-6]

To sittel this try the squish then smell, if it's Tapinoma sessile then it will have a bad smell if not then it's most likely another species