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by SamuelMamuel
Sun Jun 07, 2020 12:08 am
Forum: Ant Meetups, Events, and Clubs
Topic: Pacific Northwest Bug Group
Replies: 1
Views: 3005

Pacific Northwest Bug Group

I am considering starting a Pacific Northwest Facebook group for people who keep bugs. I am not only interested in ants, but also spiders, beetles, and whatever other bugs people are keeping. I really think it would be cool to be able to connect, share ideas, and meet other insect and arachnid keepe...
by SamuelMamuel
Thu Apr 30, 2020 9:22 am
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Name your favorite ant species
Replies: 16
Views: 11187

Re: Name your favorite ant species

Black crazy ants, Paratrechina longicornis, for sure. The fact that they can indefinitely produce and use their own queens is so cool. I have wanted to find a queen for years now, but I can never find one. It would just be so cool to have a colony that makes it's own egg producing queens. Does anyon...
by SamuelMamuel
Sun Apr 26, 2020 8:25 pm
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Queens: Monomorium?, Incestual Bypassing Question
Replies: 1
Views: 1081

Queens: Monomorium?, Incestual Bypassing Question

We have a composter in our backyard, and there is a very peculiar colony who lives directly under the lid of this composter. I am trying to figure out if this colony is a little Monomorium colony. The ants there with the larger gasters I believe are the queens. There are quite a few of them, so I am...
by SamuelMamuel
Sun Aug 18, 2019 11:01 pm
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Ant Queen ID, Oregon, Lasius?
Replies: 4
Views: 3103

Re: Ant Queen ID, Oregon, Lasius?

We have some better photos.
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by SamuelMamuel
Sun Aug 18, 2019 11:00 pm
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Southern Maine Queen ID
Replies: 3
Views: 2091

Re: Southern Maine Queen ID

We have better, clearer photos.
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by SamuelMamuel
Sun Aug 18, 2019 10:17 pm
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Southern Maine Queen ID
Replies: 3
Views: 2091

Re: Southern Maine Queen ID

Hawkeye wrote:
Sat Aug 17, 2019 5:17 am
Tetramorium immigrans ?
I just looked up T. Immigrans. I don't think thats what this is. You can see by the dead ant that they are quite a bit bigger. Can anyone help with this ID?
by SamuelMamuel
Sun Aug 18, 2019 10:16 pm
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Ant Queen ID, Oregon, Lasius?
Replies: 4
Views: 3103

Re: Ant Queen ID, Oregon, Lasius?

Hawkeye wrote:
Sat Aug 17, 2019 5:21 am
Lasius?
We were actually thinking she might be a species of Formica. Can anyone help with this ID?
by SamuelMamuel
Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:53 pm
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Ant Queen ID, Oregon, Lasius?
Replies: 4
Views: 3103

Ant Queen ID, Oregon, Lasius?

Found this queen in Woodburn, Oregon on August 2nd. She is around 1cm. Found her walking around a parking lot. She crawled into a drain before I could get her, and then crawled back out a bit later. She has a little pile of eggs. ID please. https://i.imgur.com/kpp8ZMq.jpg https://i.imgur.com/rLzcx8G...
by SamuelMamuel
Fri Aug 16, 2019 11:40 pm
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Southern Maine Queen ID
Replies: 3
Views: 2091

Southern Maine Queen ID

The queens were captured on July 15th and are around 6-7mm long. Workers 4-5mm. We were in Freeport, Maine and were looking under promising logs and debris for colonies. We flipped over one broken log and found a colony living inside. There were at least 4 visible queens and many workers. We kidnapp...
by SamuelMamuel
Thu Sep 27, 2018 11:06 pm
Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
Topic: Oregon Queen, Honey Colored Gaster
Replies: 7
Views: 16833

Re: Oregon Queen, Honey Colored Gaster

TheRealAntMan wrote:
Wed Sep 26, 2018 7:00 am
Looks like a Lasius sp. to me.
Lasius are polyginous right?