Today I did not get any of the things I wanted to do done. But I did free this carpenter ant that had somehow gotten its head stuck in some tiny larva's nest in a cluster of leaves so there's that. 🐜

#insects #ants #Formicidae #Camponotus

while flipping over pieces of fallen bark in search of woodlice, i accidentally unearthed three (3) _Myrmica rubra_ nurseries…sorry, ladies…

#arthropods #insects #ants #Formicidae cc @futurebird

four genera of ants I've met recently:

- _Prenolepis imparis_
- _Camponotus_ sp.
- _Lasius_ sp.
- _Myrmica rubra_?

(cc @futurebird @alexwild 🐜)

#ArthroBeauty #antstodon #arthropods #insects #ants #Formicidae #macro

In other news, the pharaoh ants in my apartment seem to have been driven out by these larger (~3mm?) ants. They are slow-moving, often standing still seemingly lost in thought or perhaps distracted; but they are also voracious foragers that rapidly descend on any fallen crumbs or drops of sugary tea.

In size they are between the brown pavement ants and _Myrmica rubra_. They have knobbly, rough petioles. The thorax has small points on it, barely worth calling spikes.

#ants #Formicidae

A brute of a male ant #Formicidae from Winterton Dunes, Norfolk in the summer. I think a Formica species but not sure which