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#1 Offline zenzen - Posted August 16 2017 - 9:23 AM

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Dark black queen with small red workers
 

Location: Northern Orlando area

Date: late June to early July

Habitat: open grassy neighborhood sidewalk

Length: 5mm

Color, hue, pattern and texture: black, with grainy texture (see pictures)

Distinguishing characteristics: too small to distinguish details
Distinguishing behavior: 
Nest description: usually in the dirt next to objects like pipes, walls, rocks, etc. Commonly find them under bricks in a garden

 

Workers are much redder than they look in the picture

 

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#2 Offline Phoenix - Posted August 16 2017 - 9:50 AM

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Pheidole Sp. - Probably.


Colonies

Camponotus cf. albosparsus — Journal

Camponotus cf. auriventris — Journal
Camponotus sp.
Colobopsis spp.
Crematogaster sp.
Nylanderia sp.  Journal
Pheidole cf. parva
Solenopsis geminata — Journal
 

#3 Offline Mdrogun - Posted August 16 2017 - 10:56 AM

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Pheidole navigans


Currently Keeping:
Trachymyrmex septentrionalis

Pheidole pilifera

Forelius sp. (Monogynous, bicolored) "Midwestern Forelius"
Crematogaster cerasi

Pheidole bicarinata

Aphaenogaster rudis

Camponotus chromaiodes

Formica sp. (microgena species)

Nylanderia cf. arenivega





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