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Messor andrei
Has no segements on abdomen and the entire body is covered in easily visible hair.
In the first picture the ant is taking a seed from the Erodium genus back to the colony. The last two images have a Harvester Ant going into its anthill and another one's antenna peeking out in the 3nd one.
Spotted on Oct 18, 2015
Submitted on Jan 18, 2016
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Thank you very much! I have a ton of ant photos I can use this for.
There are over 70 species of ants in California. They are hard to ID. There is a site for ID but the expert who created it IDs the ants by face first.
https://www.antweb.org/bayarea.jsp