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[madbiologist]

I don't know how to edit titles, so I'm just making a new journal instead of turning the parasitic queen journal into another, I'm just gonna make this one. Today I had searched for a while outside on what should have been a good day, but I had found nothing. I was preparing food, and I went over to a window, lo and behold, I saw a beautiful queen. I may have smushed a few plants in the process of scrambling to get her, but it was worth it when she was ID'd as a most likely a common caryae color morph, or a very rare nearcticus color morph, either way, I am happy because I'm fairly certain that noone else in Ohio has one like this, I just have to hope she's fertile, and does well.

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Edited by madbiologist, January 19 2020 - 10:31 AM.

[madbiologist]

So I checked on her a day ago and she was dead. That sucks, she was super cool looking and I was hoping to see what the workers would look like. Anyways, if anyone knows how to edit titles I would like to know so I don't have to make new journals.

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[Kaelwizard]

If you edit a post you can use full editor to edit the title too.

[VoidElecent]

Not sure where you're located, but this is more likely to be a dark variation of Camponotus snellingi.

[madbiologist]

Not sure where you're located, but this is more likely to be a dark variation of Camponotus snellingi.

I'm in Ohio, we don't have snellingi.

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Edited by madbiologist, July 21 2019 - 6:40 AM.

[Kaelwizard]

Doesn’t look like snellingi to me.

[Kaelwizard]

Snellingi lacks the hairs on the abdomen and has only one abdomen segment that is a different color.

[TennesseeAnts]

Snellingi lacks the hairs on the abdomen and has only one abdomen segment that is a different color.

Not true. They have a huge variation in color. What he has is most likely snellingi.

[VoidElecent]

C. snellingi most definitely does not lack gastric hairs. Antmaps also only accounts for registered specimens. I find it unlikely that there are only 57 species in Kentucky, but over 100 in nearly all of the adjacent states.

 

Sometimes a little educated guessing is warranted.

[Kaelwizard]

Oh, I see. I went off of photos that I saw in journals where you couldn’t see the hairs.