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Any idea what species and if they are moving there brood?

Started By Eric38 , Mar 9 2024 7:00 PM

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#1 Offline Eric38 - Posted March 9 2024 - 7:00 PM

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Found this crawling up the side of my sisters house.

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Edited by Eric38, March 9 2024 - 7:08 PM.

#2 Offline Eric38 - Posted March 9 2024 - 7:07 PM

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Another picture.

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#3 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted March 9 2024 - 8:40 PM

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LocationRocklin,CA

Where do you live?

Currently keeping
1.Camponotus vicinus. 5 workers
2.Camponotus modoc. 5 workers
3. Camponotus hyatti. 1 worker
4.Veromessor pergandei. founding
5 Linepithema humile. 70-100 workers 5 queens
6. Pheidole Californica. 65 workers
I want: Atta,Myrmecia,Myrmica,Myrmecocystus

#4 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted March 10 2024 - 2:35 AM

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Technomyrmex or Tapinoma, I'm unfamiliar so I won't say more. And no, they are not holding brood.

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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus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

#5 Offline PurdueEntomology - Posted March 10 2024 - 3:05 AM

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Just looking at it a Tapinoma spp. but not a Technomyrmex spp., which if it was you would be located in Florida or possibly a restricted area in

California, but since we are not given "location", one of the most fundamental bits of information needed in trying to delimit an ant, we are left guessing..... :thinking: From my collecting both genera I rule out Technomyrmex due to the gaster which in Technomyrmex is overall larger in relationship to the head/thorax, than in Tapinoma. If there are more than one, kill one and smell it that may help (y)