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Formica aserva & Formica fusca
Sagehen Creek, California, USA

photograph © Alex Wild 2003

Formica aserva, at left, is a facultative slave-raiding ant. One of its preferred hosts in California is Formica fusca, shown here at right.



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This image was captured with a Nikon Coolpix 995.