I was going to post this as a question, but first I searched Google for "pine needle mound in forest" and that led me immediately to the Western Thatching Ant. I ran across one of their mounds on the Augspurger Mountain Trail yesterday, about a foot from the trail but mostly obscured in greenery, just below the powerline ridge at 2900 feet. It was about 2-3 feet in diameter. Pretty neat!
(The weird cropping is because I was holding my phone out at an angle to see it better, but then I rotated it back to level later.)
Thatching Ants
Re: Thatching Ants
My wife grew up in the western foothills of the Cascades and their nests were all over the wooded acres up behind the back pasture.
Re: Thatching Ants
The biggest one I have seen was on the Saddle Trail (near the Saddle-Summit Trail junction) in the Table Rock Wilderness. That one is about 10 feet in diameter!
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Re: Thatching Ants
I will have to look for those, thanks