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Silky Field Ant

Formica subsericea

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in North Carolina.January 46, February 55, March 63, April 141, May 103, June 55, July 40, August 41, September 49, October 48, November 37, December 42.
United States5,009
North Carolina994
Virginia838
Canada590
Maryland444
Ontario348
Massachusetts347
West Virginia320
Tennessee308
Michigan225

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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