{"id":3006,"date":"2013-03-13T23:55:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T04:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3006"},"modified":"2013-03-15T10:50:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T15:50:56","slug":"large-ant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3006","title":{"rendered":"Large Ant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3007\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130313_052253.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3007\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130313_052253-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Large Ant\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130313_052253-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130313_052253-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130313_052253-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130313_052253-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/img_20130313_052253.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Large Ant<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I got home today I noticed this ant on the flagstone walk leading to my front door. It was quite cool out and he was moving pretty slowly on the cold stone. I got my bean bag and took a few photos. I&#8217;m not going to pretend to know which of an estimated 22,000 species this is. I imaging with a little work I could narrow it down to under 1,000 but for now, I&#8217;ve simply identified it as a drone (male) ant, e.g., a member of the Formicidae family.<\/p>\n<p>Update: I posted two pictures of the ant on <a href=\"http:\/\/BugGuide.net\/\" title=\"BugGuide.net\" target=\"_BugGuide\">BugGuide.net<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/750993\/bgimage\" title=\"Image #1\" target=\"_blank1\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/750994\/bgimage\" title=\"Image #2\" target=\"_blank2\">here<\/a>) and James Trager identified it as being <em>Camponotus castaneus<\/em>, also known as the reddish carpenter ant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I got home today I noticed this ant on the flagstone walk leading to my front door. It was quite cool out and he was moving pretty slowly on the cold stone. I got my bean bag and took a few photos. I&#8217;m not going to pretend to know which of an estimated 22,000 &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=3006\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3006\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}