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Queen ant with head capsule attached to antenna!

Started By Doros , May 6 2021 9:14 AM

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#21 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted May 12 2021 - 8:21 PM

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LocationCalifornia Argentine Ant Territory

I think I've seen ant heads attached to legs and stuff.

Let's see, how'd that song go ...

~~Fish~~ ant heads ~~fish~~ ant heads,

Roly poly ~~fish~~ ant heads,
~~Fish~~ ant heads ~~fish~~ ant heads,
Eat them up yum

In the morning,
Laughing happy ~~fish~~ ant heads,
In the evening,
Floating in the soup,

Ask an ~~fish~~ ant head,
Anything you want to,
They won't answer,
They can't talk

I took an ~~fish~~ ant head
Out to see a movie,
Didn't have to pay
To get it in

(etc)

Edited by OhNoNotAgain, May 12 2021 - 8:21 PM.

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Camponotus fragilis, Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola, CA02

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus, P. californicus (inactive)

Liometopum occidentale (inactive); Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive); Tetramorium sp. (inactive); Lasius sp.

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#22 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted May 13 2021 - 8:25 PM

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That happened in my house lol. A Pheidole parva major wandered into pharaoh ant territory and killed a lot but a head was attached to the majors leg

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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.