Female Ash Black Ant (Formica Nigra) Small 320×190 Medium 640×380 Large 1024×608 Download Tiff Original 2400×1426 | (361.7 KB) Description This ant belongs to the Mason-Ants which employ a mortar in raising their hillocks at the same time that they hollow out their underground dwellings. Keywords bees wasps ants hornets hymenoptera, insects, kants Galleries Hymenoptera: Ants Bees and Wasps Source: Hazlitt Alva Cuppy PH.D., Editor Beauties and Wonders of Land and Sea (Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1895)
