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Chestnut Carpenter Ant

Camponotus castaneus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Virginia.January 246, February 264, March 289, April 474, May 614, June 476, July 247, August 238, September 288, October 266, November 221, December 226.
United States18,781
Virginia3,204
North Carolina2,876
Maryland2,190
Tennessee845
Georgia828
West Virginia634
Kentucky632
South Carolina608
Alabama595

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
GenusCarpenter Ants, Typical Sugar Ants and Allies · Camponotus

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