Can you help me identify this bug I saw years ago In Edmonton, Alberta Canada?

Carpenter Ant

https://www.orkin.com/pests/ants/carpenter-ants/what-does-a-carpenter-ant-look-like

@TW No. That’s not it. It had four abdomens out of its behind. Like beads.

@Tropical_Willie I called a local pest control service in Red Deer. They will get back to me later.

Update The pest control service guy called and he can’t identify without a picture. He referred me to his boss, who is a bug expert
(Entomologist).

Doesn’t sound like an ant. Does this look anything like it?

https://tinyurl.com/4ycvvybn

@smudges Is close, but there are narrow tubes between each bubble. Thanks though.

Could it have been an ant that was being affected by cordyceps? I know that some fungus will make really strange things grow out from ants, and it’s possible that that was happening in your case.

@LifeQuestioner Thanks. No. Creepy concept though.. Thanks for sharing.

@RedDeerGuy1 maybe not true in this case, but it’s not just a concept. It really happens! Google cordyceps in ants.

@LifeQuestioner I did. Scary.

@RedDeerGuy1 it’s one of the reasons I found The Last of Us so fascinating and horrifying at the same time. Because if the global average temperature would go up, this could happen to humans. The only reason we don’t have to worry about cordyceps in humans right now is because our core body temperature is too warm for the fungus to survive. But if they adapt to higher average global temperatures, all bets are off.

@RedDeerGuy1 watch this video. It could have been a queen laying eggs. The fact that you found it outside of a nest tells me she may have been displaced as she was laying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWeIMNh6CqE

@snowberry Not it either. Thanks for the video though.

@RedDeerGuy1 the pest control people will likely ask you for a photo of it so they can identify it.