Alex WildMay 25

If you are starting to learn ants, this should be your first genus: Camponotus. They are found everywhere in the world, there are a lot of ecologically important species, and you'll always have a point of familiarity in any fauna.

The genus includes North America's common carpenter ants.

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https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Taxonomic-List-of-Ant-Genera/Camponotus

Camponotus - Alex Wild

is abundant and diverse nearly everywhere in the world. This ubiquitous formicine genus contains our familiar carpenter ants, as well as some tropical weaver ants and desert honeypot ants.

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And you can almost always let them crawl on your hand without a problem.

(wracking my brain to think of a single even slightly dangerous campo)

May 25 at 7:19pmWeb
Show threadBarry GoldmanMay 25

@futurebird @alexwild haha! dangerous campos! once i was rutting around in a log full of campos and using my ant pooter and got a lungful of formic acid.

very effective, you little ants!

Show threadBen ChaseMay 26
@futurebird @alexwild Is the criterion “will bite”, “will sting”, or “is dangerous”? Wondering if C. Floridanus meets any of those.