Arcais: Camponotus anthrax? (12. Jul 2007 19:50)

These guys are in my backyard. Looking the california guide, I think they are camponotus anthrax:
http://www.antweb.org/specimen.do?name=casent0005339&shot=p1&project=calants

Thoughts?

JimmyVe: (12. Jul 2007 20:56)

Looks like it very much. (the first to pictures, the last picture is a bit to dark to tell)

Krümel: (13. Jul 2007 15:23)

Could you make better pictures?
A few tipps:
- fotograph the ants outside, sunlight should be the moderate.
-Try to take a foto from one side, so one can see the ants profile. When you dip a little bit of honey on smth. wher you wanna fotograph them they will rest calm, cause of the honey, so you can take better fotos.

It already looks like the species is really anthrax, but you can't really be sure to identivy ants just from these pictures.

Life good, Jan

nepenthes_ak: (14. Jul 2007 23:55)

I edited them they were way to bright

JimmyVe: (15. Jul 2007 12:16)

It very much looks like they are Camponotus anthrax

Gordon C. Snelling: (21. Jul 2007 15:20)

Hmmmm looks about right, try a shot of it uncurled though, that would really help.

Arcais: (24. Jul 2007 00:03)

I'll catch a few more. I wish they would just send their damn queens out :-D.

I can't even find the next for these guys. Probably in the neighbor's yard.