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Possible Lasious* Niger queen

Started By Itsbrent , Jul 7 2016 3:19 PM

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#1 Offline Itsbrent - Posted July 7 2016 - 3:19 PM

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So I stopped by the pond today and I lifted up this rock and hoped that there were ants to check out. I had a test tube ready prior to walking down there and I got some ants. Being so interested into ants I put them in my homemade Formicarium and watched them. Then I noticed that one of the ants (black) was silghty lager than the other ones (workers) it's nodes were stretched out further and its gaster was bigger and had 2 stripes. Is this a queen ant?

#2 Offline ctantkeeper - Posted July 7 2016 - 4:34 PM

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To answer you question, this is definitely not a Lasius niger (I don't mean to be rude, but this is the correct spelling.) queen from what you have described.

#3 Offline Batspiderfish - Posted July 7 2016 - 5:12 PM

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We wouldn't know what kind of ant you were actually looking at to determine if one was a queen or not. Workers that are full of food may have much larger gasters than their sisters. If you can take pictures and let us know where in the country you found them, maybe we can figure it out.

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