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Camponotus ID, Whitney TX

Started By AntsTx , Feb 3 2025 10:42 AM
camponotus id whitney tx

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#1 Offline AntsTx - Posted February 3 2025 - 10:42 AM

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1. I collected these in Whitney TX

2. I collected these on June 20th, 2024

3. Under a rock

4. Queen 18-20mm, Workers 8-12mm

5. Black head, Black thorax, Orangish black gaster

6. No distinguishing characteristics

7. Very calm

8. THA Mini Hearth

9. I don't know, probably a month before capture

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Queen

 

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Worker

 

 

Sorry for the bad pictures, I just took them out of hibernation to take these photos and they wouldn't stop clumping up together.


Edited by AntsTx, February 3 2025 - 10:42 AM.

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Keeping:
 

Atta texana x2, Pheidole absurda x4, Neoponera villosa x7, Psuedomyrmex gracilis, Odontomachus clarus, Pheidole tepicana x5, Mycetomoelerrius turrifex x30, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis, Myrmecocystus mexicanus x4, Myrmecocystus placodops-03, Myrmecocystus kennedyi, Myrmecocystus navajo, Myrmecocystus mimicus (Caramel) x2, Camponotus atriceps 2q, Camponotus ocreatus, Camponotus sansabeanus x4, Camponotus festinatus, Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus texanus, Novomessor albisetosus, Pogonomyrmex comanche x7, Leptogenys elongata, a ton of other random ants

 

 
 

 

#2 Offline AntsGodzilla - Posted February 4 2025 - 1:42 PM

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Looks similar like my Ca 02 but I haven't heard of them in Texas so Sansabeanus.


Edited by AntsGodzilla, February 6 2025 - 4:08 PM.

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And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea (fly trap), Sarracenia (American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese (Tropical Pitcher plant), Drosera, (sundew) and Pinguicula (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)

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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

 

#3 Offline mbullock42086 - Posted February 6 2025 - 2:12 PM

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definitely sansabeanus


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