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Goose Creek, South Carolina. July 5, 2022


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#1 Offline Tai_pan1 - Posted July 5 2022 - 12:53 PM

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Can someone help me I’d this queen?

 

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1. Location of collection: found in my driveway.  New residential area (2 yrs) with heavy pine woods a block away

2. Date of collection: July 5, afternoon.
3. Habitat of collection: concrete driveway in residential area
4. Length: 5/16 inch, 8mm
5. Coloration:  black gaster, slightly lighter colored thorax, reddish head, light colored legs.  Two bumps in the waist?
 

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Edited by Tai_pan1, July 5 2022 - 1:27 PM.


#2 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted July 5 2022 - 6:04 PM

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looks like Solenopsis invicta


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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): Camponotus irritans inferior, Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, Nylanderia sp., Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp.,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.

#3 Offline Manitobant - Posted July 5 2022 - 7:16 PM

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Definitely solenopsis invicta. These guys are quite fun to keep until they suddenly aren’t…
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#4 Offline LIExotics - Posted July 9 2022 - 9:54 AM

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Nice catch. I just caught 3 fertile queens the other day. Already laid eggs too. Congrats. Pavement ants are amazing and to keep. Just remember. They grow FAST. You'll have a colony of over 8000 in a year.

#5 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 9 2022 - 1:07 PM

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Nice catch. I just caught 3 fertile queens the other day. Already laid eggs too. Congrats. Pavement ants are amazing and to keep. Just remember. They grow FAST. You'll have a colony of over 8000 in a year.

These are not pavement ants. More like Tetramorium on steroids with anger issues.

Edited by ANTdrew, July 9 2022 - 2:01 PM.

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