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Parasitic Formica or Lasius?


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#1 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 23 2020 - 11:46 AM

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Found this queen outside today right beside a Formica argentea nest and she was in her founding chamber. She looks like a Lasius umbratus queen since the gaster but she is red so that’s weird. She also has red mandibles.And the only Lasius nest is around 700 feet away from where I found her. 42D71192-5FB9-4268-B168-9E05D1765054.jpeg E71D4B3F-4169-46D0-8C79-582EC686186A.jpeg 21DBFC26-1BA7-433A-B0F6-630CD9535A00.jpeg

Edited by KitsAntVa, October 23 2020 - 12:10 PM.

We don’t talk about that

#2 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 23 2020 - 12:43 PM

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Good ol’ parasitic Lasius.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#3 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 23 2020 - 1:00 PM

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Welp thanks shortly after I caught her she started basically dying I don’t know what I did but I probably wasn’t going to keep her anyway.
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