Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Underground bug nest , 1 by Twincol

Twincol wrote:
Ummm, I went back to the original photo and cropped a bit of just the ants. They look to me to be the same ant as in the above photo, but darker, as perhaps older or another caste, or . . . are they grey ants cannibalizing the carpenter ant pups?

Oh, there's just no stopping a curious mind from exploring ad nauseum.

OK, enuf, I'm not going any further with this . . . work beckons later this morning.

My best,
Linda