1. Location of collection (ie: park/area, city/town, state/province, country). 6:30am, approximately 60F, found 4 of them on driveway.
2. Date of collection (more important for ID's of queens): 7/17/21
3. Habitat of collection (ie: desert scrub, oak forest, riparian, etc.): Driveway
4. Length (to the nearest millimeter or 1/16th of an inch.): Didn't measure, but obviously queen of small ant species, maybe a pavement ant?
5. Coloration, hue, pattern and texture (ie: dark redish-orange head, velvet-like gaster, translucent, hairy/bald, shiny/dull, etc.): black, bald, shiny
6. Distinguishing characteristics (ie: one petiole node/two petiole nodes, length and orientation of any spines or bumps on the thorax or waist, head shape, eye size, shape of mandibles, number of antennal segments, etc.): see pics and video
7. Anything else distinctive (ie: odor, behavior, characteristics relative to others in the colony, etc.): Of the 4 I caught, 2 still had wings, so I put them together in the same test tube not expecting them both to have bred. 2 weeks later one has dropped one wing and they have started nesting together so some sort of communal species.
8. Nest description (if you can find the nest, and you're sure it belongs to the ant you collected) (ie: rotted log, volcano-shaped mound of coarse gavel 10cm in diameter, etc.): N/A
9. Nuptial flight time and date (if you witnessed the ant or it's colony having a nuptial flight or caught an alate you are confident was flying that day or time): had to have been night of 7/16/21
10 . Post the clearest pictures possible of the top, side, and face of the ant in question, and if possible, their nest and the habitat they were collected in: It's a tiny ant, i did my best, including a video.
Caught 4, the 2 wingless queens were given their own test tubes and are both laying. The 2 winged queens were given the same test tube and are nesting together, one still has both wings, the other still has one wing.
Pictures/Video:
https://photos.app.g...7Pze6RvPMtPLDTA
