According to BugGuide: “native to South America, adventive in our area and spreading throughout so. We just received a correction from Ben that these are more likely Red Imported Fire Ant alates, and this BugGuide image does support that correction. In our opinion, the Argentine Ant is the most destructive invasive exotic species in Southern California, and it does much more damage than the dreaded Med Fly. When it is time to swarm, winged males and females take flight to mate and start new colonies. These are the reproductive alates of the only species of Ant ubiquitous across Southern California, the Argentine Ant.
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