The 2nd one could be a color variation of Tetramorium Immigrans...
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Posted April 6 2020 - 10:54 AM
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Posted April 6 2020 - 11:48 AM
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...and I have more ants to ID. Looks like a ponerine this time. 3 mm long, orangeish legs, blackish body. Maybe Hypoponera or Ponera? Sorry that the pictures aren't too good.
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Posted April 6 2020 - 11:50 AM
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Hypoponera or ponera.
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Posted April 6 2020 - 12:07 PM
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Did some more research. Antmaps.org doesn't list any Hypoponera in NY, so I'll go with Ponera on this one.
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Posted April 6 2020 - 12:15 PM
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I think Ponera is correct
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Posted April 6 2020 - 12:23 PM
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If it's Ponera, it's probably P. pennsylvanica. No other ponerines up here besides P. pennsylvanica.
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Posted April 6 2020 - 12:25 PM
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Posted April 6 2020 - 12:44 PM
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Here they fly around the same time as Lasius neoniger. They don't really congregate, but they do land in random places.
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Posted April 6 2020 - 4:27 PM
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Two millimeters is quite small for parasitic Lasius.
I was snooping around my backyard and found a Lasius colony who's workers looked like the ones in the picture, but were maybe a full millimeter longer. I couldn't get any pictures, but could they be parasitic? I didn't see any signs of host workers. I'll check again tomorrow, and hopefully will get some pictures.
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Posted April 6 2020 - 4:33 PM
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Mature parasitic colonies do not have host workers.I was snooping around my backyard and found a Lasius colony who's workers looked like the ones in the picture, but were maybe a full millimeter longer. I couldn't get any pictures, but could they be parasitic? I didn't see any signs of host workers. I'll check again tomorrow, and hopefully will get some pictures.Two millimeters is quite small for parasitic Lasius.
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That'd explain a lot. There were quite a number of workers under that rock.
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Posted April 28 2020 - 5:31 AM
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The tetramorium usually just battle each other, and ignore other colonies. they have a sort of agreement with a formica colony that is maybe 8 feet away. The tetramorium colony could easily overcome it, but it does not. Tetramorium is very mysterious.
This is remarkably true. There are two Tetramorium colonies in my back yard that go to war every year. In fact, they were duking it out only a few weeks ago (they seemed to calm down when the weather got cold, though). I'm starting to realize just how much Tetramorium there is in my backyard.
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