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Eastern Mound Ant

Formica integra

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in North Carolina.January 13, February 16, March 15, April 23, May 24, June 14, July 11, August 11, September 14, October 14, November 11, December 12.
United States788
North Carolina177
Canada81
Virginia71
New York67
Ohio52
Tennessee50
Alabama49
Georgia40
West Virginia39

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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