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#1 Offline Jonny8040 - Posted July 10 2020 - 12:05 PM

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It’s been a crazy good day for queens. Just caught this queen around 3:45. Is it parasitic? Or what is it haha?
Southwest Va

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#2 Offline Jonny8040 - Posted July 10 2020 - 12:09 PM

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By the way, it’s a dark red thorax and head with a black abdomen. I think it’s parasitic due to large head and smaller abdomen but I’m not sure
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#3 Offline Aaron567 - Posted July 10 2020 - 12:26 PM

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Definitely a Myrmentoma Camponotus, which are claustral and not parasitic. She's probably Camponotus discolor, one of only two bicolored red-and-black Myrmentoma with this color pattern in the east (the other being decipiens). C. decipiens is also found in Virginia, but their flights shouldn't last past April even in their more northern habitats. 



#4 Offline Jonny8040 - Posted July 10 2020 - 12:43 PM

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Thank you! Could she eat through the cotton in a test tube?
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#5 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 10 2020 - 12:47 PM

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Thank you! Could she eat through the cotton in a test tube?

Probably not.


Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 


#6 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 10 2020 - 1:10 PM

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I always pack a thicker wad of cotton for Camponotus because they love to pull it so much. Give her a drop of nectar to fatten up a bit.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.




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