{"id":1474,"date":"2020-05-17T08:35:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T14:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2020-05-17T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T14:35:22","slug":"taschenbergs-long-necked-ant-dolichoderus-taschenbergi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1474","title":{"rendered":"Taschenberg\u2019s long-necked ant <em>(Dolichoderus taschenbergi)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"724\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Taschenbergs_long-necked_ant_01.jpg\" alt=\"Taschenberg\u2019s long-necked ant\" class=\"wp-image-1475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Taschenbergs_long-necked_ant_01.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Taschenbergs_long-necked_ant_01-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Taschenbergs_long-necked_ant_01-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Taschenbergs_long-necked_ant_01-624x471.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by Luciearl<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Taschenberg\u2019s long-necked ant <em>(Dolichoderus taschenbergi)<\/em> is a small odorous ant. It occurs in the United States from Maine to North Dakota, south to Georgia and Louisiana, and in Canada from Nova Scotia to Manitoba. It is uncommon throughout its range but is most abundant in the north. It is found in open areas including old fields, woodland edges, and bogs. It forms huge colonies, often with multiple queens and more than 10,000 workers. It constructs igloo-shaped dome nests, 2\u2033 to 8\u2033 in height, using grasses, sphagnum mosses, spruce and pine needles, and other shredded vegetation. It the spring it can sometimes be found massed aboveground warming in the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Workers are uniformly colored. The overall color is sometimes interpreted as \u201cdark brownish-black\u201d, sometimes as \u201call black\u201d, sometimes as \u201cjet black\u201d. The head and front part of the body are dull, the rear of the body is shiny. The last segment of the front part of the body (propodeum) is an important identifying feature. When viewed from above, the propodeum is squarish, about as long as wide. When viewed from the side, the propodeum is distinctly concave and has the appearance of a bottle opener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/Taschenbergs_long-necked_ant.html\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Insects\/Taschenbergs_long-necked_ant.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1474\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taschenberg\u2019s long-necked ant (Dolichoderus taschenbergi) is a small odorous ant. It occurs in the United States from Maine to North Dakota, south to Georgia and Louisiana, and in Canada from Nova Scotia to Manitoba. It is uncommon throughout its range but is most abundant in the north. It is found in open areas including old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[636,635],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1476,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions\/1476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}