This is mainly a curiosity question, but maybe it means something. This morning I opened my front door, and there's three large ants sitting on the storm door (outside), side by side. As you can see by the pic, they're high up. I can't say I've ever seen this before. Does it mean anything, other than they're posing for a pic?
Wasps and ants have similar shaped bodies with a big difference being the antennae shape. Ants have a bent antennae and I don't see a bend in these. Wasps can have curled or straight antennae. I found this image as an example of the antennae shape, not necessarily as a species ID. The fact that they were high up and together has me leaning towards wasps. There are lots of small wasps, especially the parasitic species. Search "ant antennae" and wasp antennae" images.
It’s funny you mention wasps because when I showed my son the pic, he immediately thought they were bees.
I wiped them off the door with a paper towel. Lucky I didn’t get stung.
Probably should have left them be, but didn’t want them getting in the house.
In my girlfriend’s mom’s backyard in the SF Bay Area. Very dry was it’s not watered.
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A few days ago, I noticed what I was pretty sure was evidence of a mouse in my car. I had a hiking backpack and inside a pouch, I had two unopened granola bars. It chewed its way through the zipper/backpack, through the packaging, and nibbled on the bars. I hadn't seen/smelled any evidence of rodents in the car previous to this, though I did see one or two droppings inside one of our storage bins a couple of weeks ago. We set a bunch of different types of traps inside the car and were able to capture the mouse (the photo is from when it was alive). I would love any help with identifying it as I am concerned about cleaning up the droppings (as well as if I was exposed at all previously) and hantavirus. All of the articles I read online seem to have conflicting descriptions of house mice versus deer mice. For reference, we are in suburban Durham, NC in a subdivision, and my car was parked in the garage.
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10-21-21, 05:27 AM
