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Reject Queens perhaps?

Started By smares , Sep 5 2021 6:59 PM

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#1 Offline smares - Posted September 5 2021 - 6:59 PM

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Hello,
I found these on a walk around my neighborhood. They look like Tetramorium but I was hoping maybe they are something different like a pheidole. Also tets flew months ago so maybe these queens just didn't make the cut and were rejected?

They are about 8mm or so. Lakewood, Colorado.

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#2 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted September 6 2021 - 7:51 AM

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Looks like Tetramorium to me. It looks like there is a S. molesta queen in there too.

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#3 Offline Manitobant - Posted September 6 2021 - 8:56 AM

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They probably were rejected after the first workers arrived in their colonies. Tetramorium commonly found through pleometrosis, where all the queens cooperate until the first workers arrive, and then all but one are driven out or killed.