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Multiple Queen IDs, San Francisco, CA 4/13/2018

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Best Answer sericultivist , April 18 2018 - 5:15 PM

Thank you all for your input, it's been really helpful. For now I'm going to mark this as solved for Camponotus novaeboracensis, and two Formica queens. The Formica are going to be a lot harder to identify, so I will probably wait for the first full workers to pass on and then send them to the Cal Academy (Or maybe just walk over, I live a 5 minute drive from it...) to be formally identified. 

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#21 Offline LC3 - Posted April 16 2018 - 11:46 PM

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C. novaeboracensis if found throughout North America, it's distribution seems sporadic though and it appears to primarily be a woodland species. It's range might be tied more to it's habitat preferences then geography or climate. I wouldn't be surprised if this was C. novaeboracensis (especially given where it's found) but I don't think it can be confirmed outside of using an ID key.


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#22 Offline nurbs - Posted April 17 2018 - 2:29 AM

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C. novaeboracensis if found throughout North America, it's distribution seems sporadic though and it appears to primarily be a woodland species. It's range might be tied more to it's habitat preferences then geography or climate. I wouldn't be surprised if this was C. novaeboracensis (especially given where it's found) but I don't think it can be confirmed outside of using an ID key.

 

Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe and surrounding areas are all woodlands and forests. Size, head proportion, and coloration matches C. novaeboracensis. I'll bet my C. yogi that's what she is.


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#24 Offline Canadian anter - Posted April 17 2018 - 10:10 AM

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My first correct ant ID was a Camponotus novaeborecensis from Portland.

 

So I wouldn't be surprised if they existed in the Bay Area.

 

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#25 Offline Jadeninja9 - Posted April 17 2018 - 11:05 AM

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My first correct ant ID was a Camponotus novaeborecensis from Portland.

So I wouldn't be surprised if they existed in the Bay Area.

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#26 Offline sericultivist - Posted April 18 2018 - 5:15 PM   Best Answer

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Thank you all for your input, it's been really helpful. For now I'm going to mark this as solved for Camponotus novaeboracensis, and two Formica queens. The Formica are going to be a lot harder to identify, so I will probably wait for the first full workers to pass on and then send them to the Cal Academy (Or maybe just walk over, I live a 5 minute drive from it...) to be formally identified. 







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