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Wilson’s Field Ant

Formica biophilica

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18 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Mississippi.January 8, February 8, March 8, April 15, May 9, June 6, July 5, August 5, September 6, October 7, November 5, December 6.
United States269
Mississippi87
Tennessee71
Alabama28
Texas14
Arkansas10
Oklahoma9
North Carolina9
Missouri7
Louisiana7

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
GenusWood, Mound, and Field Ants · Formica

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