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ANT ID - Chatsworth hills, California


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#1 Offline Alza - Posted May 12 2015 - 7:11 PM

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IMG_1843.jpg Time of flight was around 9:20 in a rocky Chatsworth hill area, And there were a lot of these queens and males running around, but I only decided to catch 11 of them. Not including the male that drowned itself in the water portion of the test tube, and had to be removed. They are slow moving, and super small. No idea what they are.


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#2 Offline Alza - Posted May 12 2015 - 7:34 PM

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By the way, you can click on pictures to enhance the size.


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#3 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 12 2015 - 7:36 PM

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Can you give a measurement in mm? These look just like the queen that Wamdar found.



#4 Offline Alza - Posted May 12 2015 - 7:37 PM

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3mm-4mm



#5 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 12 2015 - 7:40 PM

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I think they are the same. I wonder what they are. They look like Solenopsis, but I have no idea what species.



#6 Offline Alza - Posted May 12 2015 - 7:43 PM

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New species maybe ?



#7 Offline Miles - Posted May 12 2015 - 7:58 PM

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Woah. I have never seen these! Interesting find.


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#8 Offline Wamdar - Posted May 13 2015 - 3:29 AM

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Cool find! what area did you find them in? Near the big rock, near the parks, on topanga? Just curious

 

I don't know if its the same ant as I found as drew mentioned. 

 

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clues for me is the size of the queen and the shape of the gaster, the ones you found are slightly bullate in the gaster. Really looking forward to hear more about this!



#9 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 13 2015 - 4:29 AM

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Sorry. Wrong person. I was talking about this queen.

 

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#10 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted May 13 2015 - 9:59 AM

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Well it is Monomorium or Solenopsis just looking at the ant. It cannot be Monomorium due to the way you found them, as they were obviously having a mating flight. They may be a darker variation of Solenopsis molesta or a less common theif ant species within the genus Solenopsis. This year I only caught one darkly colored S.molesta queen and she is nowhere as dark as this, but there can be darker variations of queens.

#11 Offline Alza - Posted October 24 2015 - 8:50 AM

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I've been finding a lot of workers of this species around my house, and like solenopsis, they gaster flag whenever you tap around them. 



#12 Offline kellakk - Posted October 27 2015 - 12:06 AM

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Why are we ruling out Monomorium again? It could be S. truncorum too I suppose.


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#13 Offline Crystals - Posted October 27 2015 - 6:19 AM

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If possible, I think a good side view so we can see the petiole better may help.


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#14 Offline James C. Trager - Posted November 12 2015 - 4:41 AM

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A good clear picture of the antenna would help a lot. 

 

And Alza, there are lots of Chatsworths scattered around the English-speaking world. Which one is this?



#15 Offline dspdrew - Posted November 12 2015 - 6:53 AM

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A good clear picture of the antenna would help a lot. 

 

And Alza, there are lots of Chatsworths scattered around the English-speaking world. Which one is this?

 

Chatsworth, CA.



#16 Offline James C. Trager - Posted November 12 2015 - 2:20 PM

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I knew it was CAL, but like it when people post the location more precisely, for those who don't know. 



#17 Offline PTAntFan - Posted November 14 2015 - 2:34 PM

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That was my ant found up in in Vazquez and we settled on S. Tuncorum.  They have really small workers, but my colony is still alive.  I nearly killed them in my first attempt to move them with a heat pad and bright light.  The queen would NOT move and condensation built up in the test tube drowning a few.  They've recovered but the test tube is now almost dried out. 


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#18 Offline Alza - Posted November 15 2015 - 10:14 AM

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I don't have mine anymore :( Although I know when to get them when they fly. 



#19 Offline PTAntFan - Posted November 15 2015 - 10:40 AM

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:o Thought you grabbed 11 queens?  What disaster befell them?


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#20 Offline Alza - Posted November 15 2015 - 11:00 PM

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They stopped eating and just laid on the cotton portion of the tube, and from there they died.






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