Eastern Carpenter Ant

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NikonUser
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Eastern Carpenter Ant

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Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Common throughout eastern NA with colonies up to 15,000 workers.
Nests exclusively in rotting wood, either above ground or on the ground.
Recognizable by large size, up to 14 mm, all black body with golden hairs on the gaster (abdomen).

Top image: nest entrance, guarded by workers, in a wooden power-line pole at edge of a bog.
Bottom: last worker to leave from beneath a large piece of wood on forest floor.

Top: Nikon 200mm AF Macro-Nikkor @ f/22
Bottom: Nikon 200 AF Macro-Nikkor + 5T close-up attachment @ f/22

creosoted pole, wet soil and wood, shiny black ants, and flash make for spectacular highlights!

For lateral view (dead) see:
https://www.photomacrography.net/forum/ ... hp?t=34250
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” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.

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Olympus microscope and objectives

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Post by davholla »

Nice photos, ants are never easy.

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Post by MarkSturtevant »

Very good! I agree: Ants are not easy! They do not stop moving.
Mark Sturtevant
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