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Help with identifying the species your ants

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Lizee24
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Hello

Post: # 63394Post Lizee24
Fri Aug 30, 2019 1:30 pm

https://ibb.co/TwYJqBT :shock: Found outside after a dust storm, i live in Arizona.

LasiusSapien
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Re: Hello

Post: # 63397Post LasiusSapien
Fri Aug 30, 2019 1:55 pm

Lizee24 wrote:
Fri Aug 30, 2019 1:30 pm
https://ibb.co/TwYJqBT :shock: Found outside after a dust storm, i live in Arizona.
wasp you say you found mate? lol but yeah looks like a solitary wasp mate the longer stinger is a dead give away

and this is why she has said stinger "Most solitary wasps are parasitoids.[47] As adults, those that do feed typically only take nectar from flowers. Parasitoid wasps are extremely diverse in habits, many laying their eggs in inert stages of their host (egg or pupa), sometimes paralysing their prey by injecting it with venom through their ovipositor. They then insert one or more eggs into the host or deposit them upon the outside of the host. The host remains alive until the parasitoid larvae pupate or emerge as adults"
1x Lasius Niger - early forging stage - 60-100 workers
1x Messor Barbarus - founding stage - <20 workers
1x Camponotus Turkestanus - claustral stage - 1 nanitic + brood
1x Odontoponera Transversa - semi-claustral stage - no eggs

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