Unidentified Tiny Orange Ants

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AngeredFlame850
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Re: Unidentified Tiny Orange Ants

Post: # 34317Post AngeredFlame850
Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:42 pm

They look like Crematogaster Sp.
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Re: Unidentified Tiny Orange Ants

Post: # 34321Post antnest8
Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:33 am

I looked at all the native Florida species and found these three that have the bright yellow color.
Crematogaster vermiculata
Crematogaster minutissima
Crematogaster missouriensis
just maybe where you can start looking
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Re: Unidentified Tiny Orange Ants

Post: # 35337Post AntsDakota
Mon Apr 23, 2018 4:26 pm

AngeredFlame850 wrote:
Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:42 pm
They look like Crematogaster Sp.
I think Crematogaster missouriensis
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25

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Re: Unidentified Tiny Orange Ants

Post: # 35338Post AntsDakota
Mon Apr 23, 2018 4:28 pm

antnest8 wrote:
Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:33 am
I looked at all the native Florida species and found these three that have the bright yellow color.
Crematogaster vermiculata
Crematogaster minutissima
Crematogaster missouriensis
just maybe where you can start looking
It's not C. minutissima, and it's not C. vermiculata, so it must be C. missouriensis.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25

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