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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Thatching Ant

Formica obscuripes

About

A mound-building ant of western North America that constructs large thatched nests from plant debris. Workers are bicolored red and black with powerful mandibles.

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Did You Know?

Their mounds can reach over a meter tall and persist for decades, becoming important microhabitats for other organisms.