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Messor spp. (barbarus?)
Eats seeds.
Paved road in the Mediterranean coast of Spain, close to open grasslands.
Only the harvester ants bother to collect seeds. In Spain there are several different genera of ants described as harvester ants, but only the Messor genus seems to specialize in grass seeds (which your ants are collecting).
Spotted on Apr 7, 2012
Submitted on Apr 24, 2012
