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3 Separate Solenopsis Invicta queens + Brood please come check it out
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please help idk what I have.
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Solenopsis xyloni don’t live in North Carolina.please help idk what I have.
Solenopsis xyloni don’t live in North Carolina.please help idk what I have.
Really? I looked on ant maps
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I'm not asking for a ID I'm asking for the differences
Keeping:
3 Separate Solenopsis Invicta queens + Brood please come check it out
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please help idk what I have.
Invicta queens are noticeably larger.
And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8
Solenopsis xyloni don’t live in North Carolina.please help idk what I have.
Really? I looked on ant maps
please help idk what I have.
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I'm not asking for a ID I'm asking for the differences
If they do they seem pretty rare as there are zero sightings of xyloni on the east coast.
There are no Solenopsis xyloni in North Carolina. Antweb doesn't show any sightings and the single record on Antwiki/Antmaps is likely an error. Your queen is much more likely to be S. invicta as they seem to be somewhat abundant in North Carolina.
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I'm not asking for a ID I'm asking for the differences
It should be noted that you posted this in the "Ant ID Requests" part of the forum, so it is naturally expected for you to follow the rules of ID requests. Not to mention that any extra details and information would be much more helpful than "please help idk what I have", with all due respect.
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Really? I looked on ant map
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I'm not asking for a ID I'm asking for the differences
S. xyloni was in North Carolina, hence the old records on AntMaps showing it as present. S. xyloni used to occur natively across the whole southern US, but it has been driven to extinction in the southeast by S. invicta. The only fire ants left in the eastern US are the ubiquitous S. invicta, the S. invicta x richteri hybrid, a small population of pure S. richteri, and a few small scattered populations of S. geminata. In North Carolina the only one present is S. invicta, except for possibly small numbers of the hybrid in the extreme western tip of the state.
As for the morphological differences between the two, there are often differences in color morphs, but where coloration is similar then the two can be separated by the presence of a median clypeal tooth in S. invicta (absent in S. xyloni), by the shape of the head (slightly rounder in S. invicta, slightly more square in S. xyloni), and by the length of the antennal segments (requires examination under a microscope).
Edited by Mettcollsuss, October 18 2024 - 8:08 PM.
Really? I looked on ant map
[...]
I'm not asking for a ID I'm asking for the differences
S. xyloni was in North Carolina, hence the old records on AntMaps showing it as present. S. xyloni used to occur natively across the whole southern US, but it has been driven to extinction in the southeast by S. invicta. The only fire ants left in the eastern US are the ubiquitous S. invicta, the S. invicta x richteri hybrid, a small population of pure S. richteri, and a few small scattered populations of S. geminata. In North Carolina the only one present is S. invicta, except for possibly small numbers of the hybrid in the extreme western tip of the state.
As for the morphological differences between the two, there are often differences in color morphs, but where coloration is similar then the two can be separated by the presence of a median clypeal tooth in S. invicta (absent in S. xyloni), by the shape of the head (slightly rounder in S. invicta, slightly more square in S. xyloni), and by the length of the antennal segments (requires examination under a microscope).
Really? I looked on ant map
[...]
I'm not asking for a ID I'm asking for the differences
S. xyloni was in North Carolina, hence the old records on AntMaps showing it as present. S. xyloni used to occur natively across the whole southern US, but it has been driven to extinction in the southeast by S. invicta. The only fire ants left in the eastern US are the ubiquitous S. invicta, the S. invicta x richteri hybrid, a small population of pure S. richteri, and a few small scattered populations of S. geminata. In North Carolina the only one present is S. invicta, except for possibly small numbers of the hybrid in the extreme western tip of the state.
As for the morphological differences between the two, there are often differences in color morphs, but where coloration is similar then the two can be separated by the presence of a median clypeal tooth in S. invicta (absent in S. xyloni), by the shape of the head (slightly rounder in S. invicta, slightly more square in S. xyloni), and by the length of the antennal segments (requires examination under a microscope).
Keeping:
3 Separate Solenopsis Invicta queens + Brood please come check it out
VERY BEGINNER ANT KEEPER
invicta x richteri's range is more to the west around Tennessee.
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