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Northern Indiana 7/20/20 - Queen ID Help

Started By sethay , Jul 20 2020 3:03 PM

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#1 Offline sethay - Posted July 20 2020 - 3:03 PM

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Three ants we would like help with:

#1 Caught on cement near a pool. Caught five or six in the last week or two. Some have laid eggs already.

- Roughly 12 mm

- Shiny, slight variation in color. Some are more read and some darker.

#2 - Found in our yard in a rural sub division roughly 7-4-20.

- Roughly 7 mm

- Very active, hard to take a picture of it.

#3 - Found on cement by a pool in a town.

- Roughly 10 mm

- We think this one is probably not a queen, but the extra large thorax and the fact that we haven't seen many (or any) of this type of ant makes us wonder. It is fast and active.

- It has a red hue that is hard to pick up in the pictures

#2 Offline NickAnter - Posted July 20 2020 - 3:16 PM

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LocationOrange County, California

Formica sp. maybe in the neogagates group(non parasitic)

Parasitic Lasius

Likely sanguinea group Formica.

Antkid12 likes this

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 Antkid12 - Posted July 20 2020 - 3:17 PM

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Formica sp. maybe in the neogagates group(non parasitic)

Parasitic Lasius

Likely sanguinea group Formica.

I second this.

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!