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Red Harvester Ant

Pogonomyrmex barbatus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 540, February 516, March 587, April 1,214, May 682, June 331, July 298, August 307, September 365, October 485, November 507, December 491.
Texas10,847
United States9,209
Arizona1,791
Mexico793
Oklahoma481
New Mexico449
Mexico188
Colorado85
Nuevo Leon80
Jalisco74

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • EusocialLives in colonies with division of labor and cooperative brood careFrom its classification

Ecological

  • ColonialFrom its classification

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderAnts, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies · Hymenoptera
FamilyAnts · Formicidae
GenusTypical American Harvester Ants · Pogonomyrmex

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