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Antcatcherpro3's Nylanderia deceptrix journal


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#1 Offline Antcatcherpro3 - Posted April 10 2021 - 12:54 PM

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Now I know a lot of people say it hard to ID Nylanderia, but I am positive that this is deceptrix. Everything about the queen, and workers matches the descriptions on antwiki. The queen's head was wide, and the thorax was lighter than the head and gaster. Also pretty small. I recently found a colony of these ants, and this will be my journal on them. The queen currently has about 10-15 workers, and some larvea. I do have another colony of these, but I thought it would be nice to start with a much smaller colony in a test tube. I will also post updates on my other much more bigger colony in a dirt setup here as well.  :D


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#2 Offline NickAnter - Posted April 10 2021 - 1:58 PM

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"Nylanderia deceptrix has not been observed to produce a worker caste (we observed no features among the thousands of N. parvula workers examined that would indicate N. deceptrix workers were present; i.e. all conformed to the expected worker morphology of N. parvula)"  This pretty much rules out deceptrix in your case, unless you have found a parvula colony that lost it's queen, and has only the deceptrix remaining.


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Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 


#3 Offline Antcatcherpro3 - Posted April 10 2021 - 2:27 PM

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uhh, that's probably what happened, I guess. i'll do more research.



#4 Offline Antcatcherpro3 - Posted April 10 2021 - 2:30 PM

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There are only 2 species of Nylanderia in MA, so it shouldn't be too hard to ID.



#5 Offline Antcatcherpro3 - Posted April 10 2021 - 2:33 PM

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There are only 2 species of Nylanderia in MA, so it shouldn't be too hard to ID. How do I edit the title?


Oops sorry I posted that twice.



#6 Offline Antcatcherpro3 - Posted April 11 2021 - 3:21 AM

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I realized I already had a journal with the correct species in the title, so I won't be posting here anymore. I will post about these colonies on my parvula journal.






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