High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pogonomyrmex occidentalis (Cresson, 1865) is the Western Harvester Ant. Like other harvester ants in the genus Pogonomyrmex, it is so called because of its habit of collecting edible seeds and other food items to store as a food supply during times of scarcity, particularly the winter months. The specific epithet "occidentalis", meaning "of the west", refers to the fact that it is characteristic of the interior of the Western United States of America; its mounds of gravel, surrounded by areas denuded of plant life, are a conspicuous feature of rangeland. When numerous, they cause such loss of grazing plants and seeds, as to constitute both a severe ecological and economic burden. They also are aggressive in defence of their colonies and they have a painful and venomous sting. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия" в...

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