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Texas Leaf Cutting Ant

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Photo by jess.blank
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Field Notes

Notes:

A line marched through our campsite and up a tree at Texas State University's campground on the Blanco near Wimberly.

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Comments (3)
ceherzog
Leaf cutters in Texas...that's a new one for me. I thought they occurred in tropical rain forests!
mredria
Wow! I didn't know we had ants like this in Texas. I thought they were all the small stinging kind or the.. big stinging kind.
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PublishedJune 8, 2011

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