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Outside Ottawa, 2pm August 29 2018


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#1 Offline Ikerrilove - Posted August 29 2018 - 11:59 AM

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Queen was found digging in the wet dirt between the 2nd floor deck boards after rain earlier.

Near a river, near woods also, lots of green lawn and trees and a rocky shoreline

8mm (from head to end tip of gaster, is this correct or do we not include the gaster?)

Brown with a shiny/iridescent gaster (honey brown) seems fairly smooth, 

The shine on her gaster reminds me of a hologram or tigers eye stones

Pretty quick and sensitive to light, large eyes, spikes on her leg joints, no issues walking on glass

Nest unknown and we have a bit of everything here. 

Nuptial flight unknown but she was digging her chamber around 2pm

Today is wet and steamy, nights and mornings are cool, lots of dew on the grass but no frost yet. it's about 79F 

If there is anything I've missed or could have added, please let me know so I can give better descriptions. Thanks.

 

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#2 Offline dermy - Posted August 29 2018 - 12:02 PM

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The lighting could be much better since I can't make out much colouring and such. My best guess would be Lasius sp. It's their time to fly in Canada.


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#3 Offline Ikerrilove - Posted August 29 2018 - 12:09 PM

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Lighting is definitely next on my list of things to figure out with this camera. The flash washed everything out but I think that was from the paper underneath. 

I seem to be getting a bit better with the manual focus, automatic sucks when taking pictures in the yard.

I'm just hoping that since she was digging her own chamber, that means she's not a social parasite, which is all I've found here so far for Lasius. 



#4 Offline dermy - Posted August 29 2018 - 12:15 PM

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Lighting is definitely next on my list of things to figure out with this camera. The flash washed everything out but I think that was from the paper underneath. 

I seem to be getting a bit better with the manual focus, automatic sucks when taking pictures in the yard.

I'm just hoping that since she was digging her own chamber, that means she's not a social parasite, which is all I've found here so far for Lasius. 

Well I'm not 100% sure since I'm not an expert on Lasius parasitic queens, but it looks like a Fully Claustral queen to me. It may or may not require hibernation this late in the season though.



#5 Offline LearningAntz - Posted August 29 2018 - 1:29 PM

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It’s definitely fully-claustral. We’d need pictures of the scapes and the teeth to narrow it down to the species of Lasius.
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#6 Offline VoidElecent - Posted August 30 2018 - 5:01 PM

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neoniger or flavus group Lasius.


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