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Pacific Field Ant
Formica pacifica
Formica pacifica is an ant species occupying the Pacific Coast of the United States and British Columbia, Canada. This species is a member of the Formica fusca species group. Workers are quite fast and aggressive. This species engages in wars with neighboring colonies. F. pacifica is present in both forests and human settlements. Colonies of this species can grow up to a few thousand workers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 69065.