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[yoman503]

Color: Brown-Redish

Length: 10 mm

Found in Eastern Canada

Looks like a camponotus pennsylvanicus but in smaller

 

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[LC3]

Camponotus nearcticus 

[Aaron567]

Couldn't it also be Camponotus caryae? I thought nearcticus were all black.

[VoidElecent]

Couldn't it also be Camponotus caryae? I thought nearcticus were all black.

 

C. caryae are the all-black ones. They are also more prevalent in Southern US; whereas C. nearcitus, hence their name, are more common in the North.

[Aaron567]

 

Couldn't it also be Camponotus caryae? I thought nearcticus were all black.

 

C. caryae are the all-black ones. They are also more prevalent in Southern US; whereas C. nearcitus, hence their name, are more common in the North.

 

 

Oooh so the black ones I see in my backyard must be caryae then  

[VoidElecent]

 

 

Couldn't it also be Camponotus caryae? I thought nearcticus were all black.

 

C. caryae are the all-black ones. They are also more prevalent in Southern US; whereas C. nearcitus, hence their name, are more common in the North.

 

 

Oooh so the black ones I see in my backyard must be caryae then  

 

 

Given that you live in Florida, I'd say so.

 

I thought I had a massive C. caryae colony in my front yard for the longest time until I saw a major with a slightly reddish mesosoma. Even though they're both in the Myrmentoma subgenus, they're pretty different; C. nearcticus colonies can get pretty large and inhabit multiple nesting sites where C. caryae colonies typically don't exceed 300-400 workers.

[Nathant2131]

Actually C. nearcticus can be both red and black. Not sure if that depends on location though. But really I personally would not base a Myrmentoma ID off of color.

Edited by Nathant2131, July 25 2017 - 3:43 PM.