a little wild   (a small slice of wildlife)

An ant walk that was incredibly fascinating. My ignorance of ants is vast, which makes this particularly helpful.

All photos of ants being held in someone’s hand were being held by our wonderful hike leader.

Ants

Monomorium (probably M. emarginatum), or perhaps M. minimum.

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Formica

Formica sp

Lasius americanus or L neoniger

Myrmica queen

I believe this one is carrying a springtail. It’s Myrmica.

And a Myrmica carrying a weevil:

In an acorn, but not an “acorn ant”. This one is Ponera pennsylvanica.

These were actually acorn ants, I think (https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Temnothorax_curvispinosus)

These were found near a dead mouse’s head, Monomorium.

This one was described as the bottle can opener ant — notice the projection at the end of the mesoma (hope I’m right with the terminology). Dolichoderus pustulatus or D. plagiatis.

Another view

Not ants

https://bugguide.net/node/view/1068332, Microcentrus nymph

“a really worn Lucerne moth”

Pimplinae wasp?