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Yellow-footed Ant

Nylanderia flavipes

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in New York.January 78, February 77, March 104, April 182, May 312, June 177, July 224, August 146, September 122, October 195, November 77, December 71.
United States4,255
New York1,965
New Jersey843
Maryland445
Virginia423
Pennsylvania407
District of Columbia340
Massachusetts242
South Korea148
West Virginia134

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
GenusNylanderia

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