Wairaki Stream Reserve, vicinity of 3 Royal Viking Way. One nest on the ground under a rotten log in native bush. Workers and queens observed. This observation is for the queens. Photo 1 shows two queens and a worker.
Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Epsom, Withiel Thomas Park.
Habitat: Remnant rock forest. Nesting on soil under a rock, adjacent to a domestic garden. Hundreds of workers and a few alate queens observed. The rock also had a queen Pheidole vigilans under it.
Identification: Solenopsis sp. ST1. Queens.
A small insect, less than 7 mm long. Apologies for poor-quality images, as the insect was in a low-light setting
Found beneath a rotting log in native forest (totara canopy) degraded by stock access.
Large, 5-10 mm, black with red, semi translucent at end of abdomen. Exoskeleton sparkles under light.
This one large ant was foraging slowly in this Isolepis cernua.
Rabbit chew is a routine issue with I.cernua too, as we see here.
Wairaki Stream Reserve, vicinity of 3 Royal Viking Way. One nest on the ground under a rotten log in native bush. Workers and queens observed. This observation is for the queens. Photo 1 shows two queens and a worker.