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Biology
Habitat: In fields with sandy soil, dry fields generally, sandy-soil prairie and sand savanna or woodland. P. tysoni nests in soil with little evidence on the surface of their presence. I also have collections of P. tysoni from a sandy midstrip of a little-used, chert gravel road, and from a silty clay, compacted-soil area adjacent to a rock parking area.
Natural History: I have long suspected the small, yellowish P. tysoni lives a mainly subterranean existence, perhaps cultivating subterranean aphids or mealy bugs, and one observation in a sandy prairie in southwest Missouri supports this latter part. It has also been captured in buried, meat-baited traps in a sandy prairie in southwestern Missouri. On the other hand, Stefan Cover (in Wilson, 2003) reports it foraging and tending aphids above ground in Arizona.
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