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Florida Harvester Ant

Pogonomyrmex badius

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Georgia.January 70, February 77, March 71, April 104, May 85, June 51, July 43, August 41, September 55, October 63, November 48, December 59.
United States6,325
Georgia768
Alabama641
Mississippi291
South Carolina257
North Carolina250
Louisiana148
Arkansas10
Massachusetts3
Kansas1

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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