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Started By Yourbasicantkeeper , Jul 3 2023 8:48 AM

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#1 Offline Yourbasicantkeeper - Posted July 3 2023 - 8:48 AM

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Ant queen Identification please

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#2 Offline Yourbasicantkeeper - Posted July 3 2023 - 8:50 AM

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Sorry for the bad quality


"I am here on Earth, and I am only a speck of sand in the desert, a blade of grass in a field. I am no greater than any one of these busy ants who build for each other's comfort. " - King Solomon

 

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#3 Offline FinWins - Posted July 3 2023 - 8:53 AM

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What is it's size?


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I keep: C. modoc, C. sansabeanus  :D, C. maritimus, Formica argentea, M. mexicanus  :D, Odontomachus brunneus :D, Pogonomyrmex californicus, Pogonomyrmex rugosus, 

 

#4 Offline ReignofRage - Posted July 3 2023 - 8:54 AM

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Should be Liometopum occidentale.


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#5 Offline antsriondel - Posted July 3 2023 - 9:01 AM

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It does look like occidentale but I would need better photos to confirm it.


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#6 Offline Yourbasicantkeeper - Posted July 3 2023 - 9:36 AM

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What is it's size?

 


"I am here on Earth, and I am only a speck of sand in the desert, a blade of grass in a field. I am no greater than any one of these busy ants who build for each other's comfort. " - King Solomon

 

Currently keeping: Myrmecocystus Depilis, Pogonomyrmex Rugosus

 

Wishlist: Camponotus Ocreatus

#7 Offline Yourbasicantkeeper - Posted July 3 2023 - 10:43 AM

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I let her go because I don't have any test tubes with me right now


"I am here on Earth, and I am only a speck of sand in the desert, a blade of grass in a field. I am no greater than any one of these busy ants who build for each other's comfort. " - King Solomon

 

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#8 Offline Manitobant - Posted July 3 2023 - 1:15 PM

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Queens are perfectly capable of surviving in a container for a bit until you get tubes.
My journals:

Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#9 Offline Yourbasicantkeeper - Posted July 3 2023 - 1:37 PM

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Queens are perfectly capable of surviving in a container for a bit until you get tubes.

I'm not getting test tubes for a week they got stuck in shipping


"I am here on Earth, and I am only a speck of sand in the desert, a blade of grass in a field. I am no greater than any one of these busy ants who build for each other's comfort. " - King Solomon

 

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#10 Offline antsriondel - Posted July 3 2023 - 2:22 PM

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Are you able to get a better photo? I still cannot tell the exact species.


#11 Offline Yourbasicantkeeper - Posted July 3 2023 - 7:30 PM

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I let her go because I don't have any test tubes with me right now


"I am here on Earth, and I am only a speck of sand in the desert, a blade of grass in a field. I am no greater than any one of these busy ants who build for each other's comfort. " - King Solomon

 

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#12 Offline antsriondel - Posted July 4 2023 - 6:40 AM

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I let her go because I don't have any test tubes with me right now

 

Sorry, did not see that. 


#13 Offline Yourbasicantkeeper - Posted July 4 2023 - 4:08 PM

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I let her go because I don't have any test tubes with me right now

 

Sorry, did not see that. 

 

All good!  (y)  :D  :)


"I am here on Earth, and I am only a speck of sand in the desert, a blade of grass in a field. I am no greater than any one of these busy ants who build for each other's comfort. " - King Solomon

 

Currently keeping: Myrmecocystus Depilis, Pogonomyrmex Rugosus

 

Wishlist: Camponotus Ocreatus

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