Formica oreas Carson Pass, California, USA - Alex Wild Photography - Insect Photography

Formica

is an ubiquitous formicine genus across temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. These large, alert ants are diverse in behavior and ecology. Formica includes some slave-raiders as well as less extreme forms of social parasitism.

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Formica obscuriventris

South Bristol, New York, USA

Formica oreas

Carson Pass, California, USA

Formica pallidefulva. Ants as earthbound creatures are not ideal pollinators, but they can carry pollen over short distances.

Champaign, Illinois, USA

Formica pallidefulva. This young ant has just eclosed from a pupa and her integument is still pale and soft. She will darken over time.

Champaign, Illinois, USA

A Formica pallidefulva worker forages for nectar in a spring dandelion.

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Southern populations of Formica pallidefulva are much lighter in color than their northern counterparts.

Gainesville, Florida, USA

Formica pallidefulva

Urbana, Illinois, USA

Formica pergandei carry a caterpillar they have caught back to the nest.

South Bristol, New York, USA

Formica ravida alate queen searching for a potential host colony. This species is parasitic in the colony-founding stage, as newly-mated queens enter nests of other Formica species, kill the resident queen, and usurp the colony.

California, USA

Formica oreas

Carson Pass, California, USA

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Original size: 2763x1936 |

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Keywords: insect insects rufa formica hymenoptera formicidae formicinae ant portrait red and black ant oreas formica oreas alpine ants

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Formica

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