Notes ⁴

Those tiny little ants that sometimes come into the house in the wet season. After rain (particularly the first fall rains) you can sometimes see aggregations of winged ones embarking on their nuptial flight. An invasive species accidentally introduced to the US in the soil of oleander plants. They form supercolonies with hundreds of queens each (look this up, it's amazing. each supercolony is seriously like the size of Arizona).

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Ferran Turmo Gort, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/fturmog/6944800058/
2. (c) Marc Matteo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/lectroidmarc/4215862643/
3. (c) Jon Sullivan, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/7935985982/
4. (c) sea-kangaroo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNaturalist NZ taxon page
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