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From NY state.

Started By futurebird , Aug 26 2021 4:57 AM

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#1 Online futurebird - Posted August 26 2021 - 4:57 AM

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I got these ants from another forum member who just said they were "lasius" which I now think is correct. Anyway the person I bought them from is awesome.

And I was like "I'm a big girl. I'll figure out what they are!" Yeah, no. I thought they were winter ants... mostly because of the gasters on the workers and their size and I even made a video about it. (which I have taken down) since I started thinking about it and ... I don't think that's what they are. I'm going to do the flow chart from the "ants of new england" book (again) but let's be real... I can't tell ants apart.

Maybe someone here can help. Here are the photos.

They are so small. Smaller than my positively ID'd lasius neoniger ants. The whole colony in the above photo can easily fit under a quarter.

Closer view of the queen:

Closer view of the worker eye:

Good photo to count segments in the antene. There are 9... if I'm counting correctly.

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Starting this July I'm posting videos of my ants every week on youTube.

I like to make relaxing videos that capture the joy of watching ants.

If that sounds like your kind of thing... follow me >here<.

#2 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted August 26 2021 - 5:04 AM

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Nylanderia sp. maybe flavipes

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My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata

#3 Offline NickAnter - Posted August 26 2021 - 7:54 AM

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Nylanderia for sure, but narrowing this genus down to species can be a bit difficult.

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Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies.

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant).

#4 Offline ANTdrew - Posted August 26 2021 - 11:30 AM

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These are really fun ants to keep.

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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#5 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted August 28 2021 - 7:40 AM

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These are really fun ants to keep.

Fun but annoying

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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

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.

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