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Formica aerata
Hallelujah Junction, Lassen Co., California, USA

photograph © Alex Wild 2004

Formica aerata, the gray field ant, is a common species in riparian habitats in California. 
Here a worker ant tends aphids on a willow tree.



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This image was captured with a Canon EOS D60, with a Canon 65/2.8 MPE 1-5x Macro lens.