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Photographer: K. Linzmeier
Taken: June 11, 2011
Caption: BIG ant houses!
Additional Description: The dirt mounds you see around you are the homes of wood ants also called Formica ants. Each colony can house thousands of ants. It can last for many decades. The colony is able to multiply when one of the fertile queens, surrounded by part of the female worker force, walks to a new nest site and builds another mound. This newly made mound still remains as part of the original colony and is connected through trails. Help protect our ants by not throwing rocks and sticks at them or their home.
Submitted: March 24, 2012, by Keith L of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.
Database Locator Identification Number: p197695
File Size: 1.982 Megabytes

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