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Small Honey Ants Mating (queen and drone)
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# Title Small Honey Ants Mating (queen and drone) Description A queen Small Honey Ant or Winter Ant (Prenolepis imparis) mates with a male drone. The queen had flown across a field, with the male attached to the tip of her abdomen, before landing to rest on this blade of grass. Location and Date Bent Creek Experimental Forest—North Carolina Arboretum near Asheville, North Carolina, USA 4/6/22 (Note: pre-2000 dates are approximate) Credit Mark Swanson / Swanson Media Camera/Source Nikon D7100 DSLR Lens AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/2.8G IF-ED Model/property releases available? Not applicable/Not applicable Keywords Small Honey Ant or Winter Ant (Prenolepis imparis), False Honey Ants (Prenolepis spp.), Tribe Lasiini, Formicine Ants (Subfamily Formicinae), Ants (Formicidae), Hymenoptera, Class Insecta (Insects), Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods), Kingdom Animalia (Animals) |
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