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Any help to ID ant?

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  • 08-04-2013, 08:03 AM
    Neal
    Any help to ID ant?
    Ok, so here are some pictures of the ants that are invading my home and I have no idea or the slightest clue what kind of ants they are. These were the best pictures I could get. I know three things for sure:

    1.) They don't sting
    2.) They have different sizes
    3.) They have two nodes(the thing before the abdomen)

    http://imageshack.us/a/img543/2290/wpsn.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img19/8347/ckkg.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img819/4328/qnw1.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img59/9731/pmz8.jpg
    http://imageshack.us/a/img607/8918/ukwf.jpg

    At first I thought it was the crazy ant, but it's supposed to have a spine thing and I don't see one, so any help is greatly appreciated. Just for informational purposes I'm from Louisiana.
  • 08-04-2013, 08:15 AM
    3skulls
    Any help to ID ant?
    Genus Solenopsis - Fire / Thief

    Or check out

    Genus Crematogaster - Acrobat Ants
  • 08-04-2013, 08:23 AM
    elduki
    Any help to ID ant?
    Looks like a normal to me
  • 08-04-2013, 08:33 AM
    Neal
    Re: Any help to ID ant?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by 3skulls View Post
    Genus Solenopsis - Fire / Thief

    Or check out

    Genus Crematogaster - Acrobat Ants

    Well a fire ant is red, and a thief ant is yellow. I thought about it being a thief ant, but thief ants have a stinger as well:
    http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/ants/thiefant.shtml

    Then I thought about maybe Pharoah but I don't believe it's them because the workers are different sizes, and that doesn't say they are.
    http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/ants/pharoahant.shtml

    The acrobat ant is the closest I could find, especially with color, but doesn't say anything about different size workers and also it doesn't have the spine thing on the thorax. Here's a link:
    http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/ants/acrobatant.shtml

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by elduki View Post
    Looks like a normal to me

    Just a regular normal ant? I don't know anything about ants.
  • 08-04-2013, 11:01 AM
    3skulls
    Any help to ID ant?
    Hmm. I can't tell from those pics.
    I think there is a Ref Fire Ant but I'm not sure all Fire ants are red.

    http://bugguide.net/node/view/377415

    What about
    Monomorium sp.

    http://bugguide.net/node/view/395758

    I really don't know anything about ants but they are some really cool bugs!
  • 08-04-2013, 01:27 PM
    Neal
    Re: Any help to ID ant?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by 3skulls View Post
    Hmm. I can't tell from those pics.
    I think there is a Ref Fire Ant but I'm not sure all Fire ants are red.

    http://bugguide.net/node/view/377415

    What about
    Monomorium sp.

    http://bugguide.net/node/view/395758

    I really don't know anything about ants but they are some really cool bugs!

    Yea, now the second one is a possibility, but I can tell you 100% that it's not a fire ant. Fire ants sting and I've had 5+ of these guys wandering no my hand when I tried to pick them up and I was never stung.
  • 08-04-2013, 01:51 PM
    Mephibosheth1
    Do they smell nasty when you squish them?? We usually get odorous house ants back here, ad they smell like formic acid (really bitter) when crushed
  • 08-04-2013, 02:00 PM
    Neal
    Re: Any help to ID ant?
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Mephibosheth1 View Post
    Do they smell nasty when you squish them?? We usually get odorous house ants back here, ad they smell like formic acid (really bitter) when crushed

    I haven't noticed anything.
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