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#1 Offline AntJohnny - Posted March 29 2019 - 1:45 PM

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I found three of these queens in the soil, under a rock in my front yard. They are about 1 cm. Shiny black and no hairs on there gaster.

#2 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted March 29 2019 - 1:46 PM

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We need pictures to get a positive ID.

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#3 Offline AntJohnny - Posted March 29 2019 - 1:47 PM

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Sorry I didn't realize the pictures didn't go through. I'll put them on somewhere else

#4 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 29 2019 - 1:47 PM

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Gonna need pics! If they are Formica, they would most likely be F. subsericea.



#5 Offline AntJohnny - Posted March 29 2019 - 1:56 PM

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http://imgur.com/gallery/CSwwjIQ

I had to put the photos on imgur. Let me know if you guys are able to see them that way. I didn't mean the put the lasious picture in there. I'm pretty sure that one is a umbratus or claviger though.

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#6 Offline AntJohnny - Posted March 29 2019 - 2:10 PM

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If they are subsericea. Will the queens fight if they are together? I have two in a antcanada 4 way adapter with two testubes. They haven't left there own test tube yet. And 1 queen by herself. I want a multi queen colony if I'm able to house them together.

#7 Offline ponerinecat - Posted March 29 2019 - 2:53 PM

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2 are formica, last ones a parasitic lasius. first could also be a normal lasius. formica are single queened.


seperate your two queens.



#8 Online Zeiss - Posted March 29 2019 - 3:34 PM

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You have to post ID requests following the ID format.  It isn't hard to look before you post; it's the top pinned topic for the ID Request thread.


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#9 Offline AntJohnny - Posted March 29 2019 - 3:38 PM

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Ok thank you for the help.

#10 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 29 2019 - 7:05 PM

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2 are formica, last ones a parasitic lasius. first could also be a normal lasius. formica are single queened.
seperate your two queens.


Atually many Formica are polygynous, like Formica fusca, rufa, obscuripes.

#11 Offline ponerinecat - Posted April 6 2019 - 10:35 AM

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2 are formica, last ones a parasitic lasius. first could also be a normal lasius. formica are single queened.
seperate your two queens.


Atually many Formica are polygynous, like Formica fusca, rufa, obscuripes.

 

I didn't know that. all the formica around here seem to be single gyned.






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