Hi all, it's been a while and my identification skills are a bit rusty, so I want a little bit of help with two dealates that I found yesterday:
Queen #1:
Location: Jasper, Indiana
Date of collection: May 21st
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Size: 9 mm
Distinguishing features: none
- I found this queen a bit early for what I'm used to finding queens around here. I'm pretty sure that she's a Formica species, but beyond that I'm not sure.
![IMG 8352 IMG 8352](https://www.formiculture.com/uploads/gallery/album_1852/gallery_3269_1852_767596.jpg)
![IMG 8355 IMG 8355](https://www.formiculture.com/uploads/gallery/album_1852/gallery_3269_1852_518768.jpg)
![IMG 8349 IMG 8349](https://www.formiculture.com/uploads/gallery/album_1852/gallery_3269_1852_1263750.jpg)
![IMG 8347 IMG 8347](https://www.formiculture.com/uploads/gallery/album_1852/gallery_3269_1852_574644.jpg)
Queen #2:
Location: Jasper, Indiana
Date of collection: May 21st
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Size: 4.5 mm
Distinguishing features: very tiny
- I found this queen in the same spot right after I found the previous queen, she appears to be an Aphaenogaster queen, and I'm kind of hoping that she's not A. tennesseensis because I don't really want to deal with social parasites right now ahah.
![IMG 8339 IMG 8339](https://www.formiculture.com/uploads/gallery/album_1852/gallery_3269_1852_2160968.jpg)
![IMG 8338 IMG 8338](https://www.formiculture.com/uploads/gallery/album_1852/gallery_3269_1852_1740562.jpg)
![IMG 8337 IMG 8337](https://www.formiculture.com/uploads/gallery/album_1852/gallery_3269_1852_1824014.jpg)
![IMG 8336 IMG 8336](https://www.formiculture.com/uploads/gallery/album_1852/gallery_3269_1852_2045054.jpg)
![IMG 8341 IMG 8341](https://www.formiculture.com/uploads/gallery/album_1852/gallery_3269_1852_1272051.jpg)
![IMG 8342 IMG 8342](https://www.formiculture.com/uploads/gallery/album_1852/gallery_3269_1852_2080955.jpg)