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Started By M_Ants , Aug 14 2020 9:50 PM

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#1 Offline M_Ants - Posted August 14 2020 - 9:50 PM

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Hot and humid night

What on earth are these ants? They are super speedy and skinny.

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Also last time I thought I found a cyphomyrmex queen except now I found more??? Do cyphomyrmex have different casts? Some are bigger than others but both appear to be workers. They came out of a hole so I'm pretty sure they're all workers

Queen I got ID last time.

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Workers I found

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Smaller worker on right


Edited by M_Ants, April 3 2024 - 5:45 PM.

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Veromessor pergandei

Veromessor andrei

Crematogaster sp. 

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

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#2 Offline Solenoqueen - Posted August 14 2020 - 10:14 PM

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I could be dead wrong, but it looks like the first workers you found are an Aphaenogaster species. I also didn’t know that the size for Cyphomyrmex queens could vary so much, however it would make sense since some queens just happen to be bigger than others for whatever reason.

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#3 Offline Robert - Posted August 14 2020 - 11:17 PM

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The first group of workers are Doryline and almost certainly Neivamyrmex sp. You can tell by the characteristic cane-like bend of the tree trunk they have for a funiculus. 


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#4 Offline gcsnelling - Posted August 15 2020 - 2:11 AM

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Neivamyrmex nigrescens.


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#5 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted August 15 2020 - 6:56 AM

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Neivamyrmex nigrescens.


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#6 Offline ponerinecat - Posted August 15 2020 - 7:16 AM

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Neivamyrmex nigriscens, and Cyphomyrmex wheeleri. Looks like they are indeed gynes, Cyphomyrmex are monomorphic. Either dewinged alates acting as workers or the colony has too many queens and just uses the ones lower down in the hierarchy as workers.


#7 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted August 15 2020 - 7:18 AM

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Neivamyrmex nigrescens.

I third this.


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#8 Offline Antkid12 - Posted August 15 2020 - 7:22 AM

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Nice find!


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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#9 Offline M_Ants - Posted August 15 2020 - 7:43 AM

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Should I keep them? I mean they aren't queens from a nuptial flight so they're useless right?


Edited by M_Ants, August 15 2020 - 7:43 AM.

Veromessor pergandei

Veromessor andrei

Crematogaster sp. 

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

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#10 Offline TechAnt - Posted August 15 2020 - 7:48 AM

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Should I keep them? I mean they aren't queens from a nuptial flight so they're useless right?

Worker ants around the globe: Ouch, aren’t we all interesting not just the queens.. : (

But yeah you can release them back to where you found them. Or keep them, whatever suits you, they only are workers so yeah. Unless it’s a small colony where you probably would want to release them in that case back to the colony so they can grow.
My Ants:
(x1) Campontous semitstaceus ~20 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Camponotus vicinus ~10 workers, 1 Queen (all black variety)
(x1) Tetramorium immigrans ~100 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Myrmercocystus mexicanus -1 Queen
(x2) Mymercocystus mimcus -1 Queen
(x1) Mymercocystus testaceus ~45 workers, 1 Queen

#11 Offline M_Ants - Posted August 15 2020 - 8:06 AM

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What about the queens though?


Veromessor pergandei

Veromessor andrei

Crematogaster sp. 

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

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#12 Offline Antkid12 - Posted August 15 2020 - 8:57 AM

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I would keep the queens in a tube for a while to see if she lays anything. But she probably doesn't have a fungus pellet.


Edited by Antkid12, August 15 2020 - 9:39 AM.

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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#13 Offline M_Ants - Posted August 15 2020 - 9:02 AM

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Well for some reason they all died. No idea why. They were in a test tube. Doesn't matter though because they would have starved without fungus. 


Veromessor pergandei

Veromessor andrei

Crematogaster sp. 

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

Various Pheidole

C. yogi 

https://www.youtube....FG7utFVBA/about

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