URGENT:PARASETIC QUEEN ANT
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URGENT:PARASETIC QUEEN ANT
HELP!I Was Flipping Over Rocks And I Found A Queen Ant With A Wing Beside A Massive Lasius Neoniger Colony!She Is Parasitic...Her Jaws..Build..Etc....But I Don't Have A Species ID On Her!I Have No Idea What Species She Is!Ill Share Picture On Instagram
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Here's A Desc
She Is A Pure Blood Red
She Has A Temple Like Pheidole
She Ripped Apart A Lasius Neoniger Worker I Offered
The Only Wing She Has Left Is Kinda Brown
She's 7 MM(Guess)
She Hasn't Layed Eggs
The Last One If Her I Kept Didn't Lay Eggs And Died
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Here's A Desc
She Is A Pure Blood Red
She Has A Temple Like Pheidole
She Ripped Apart A Lasius Neoniger Worker I Offered
The Only Wing She Has Left Is Kinda Brown
She's 7 MM(Guess)
She Hasn't Layed Eggs
The Last One If Her I Kept Didn't Lay Eggs And Died
Keeping ants for 6 years now.
Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax
Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax
Re: URGENT:PARASETIC QUEEN ANT
is there any way you can share the pic. on the forum?
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Queen Hunting
How To Identify Ants
Re: URGENT:PARASETIC QUEEN ANT
Nobody is going to go onto instagram. Post the picture here.
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Selliing:
Re: URGENT:PARASETIC QUEEN ANT
Says "Picture File Too Large"
Keeping ants for 6 years now.
Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax
Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax
Re: URGENT:PARASETIC QUEEN ANT
PTasker15 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2018 5:25 pmHere
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139051342@N03/albums/72157690750703951
Keeping ants for 6 years now.
Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax
Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax
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Re: URGENT:PARASETIC QUEEN ANT
Not a social parasite. Looks like Tetramorium bicarinatum, but we would need better pictures and an actual measurement to do a proper ID.
If you enjoy my expertise and identifications, please do not put wild populations at risk of disease by releasing pet colonies. We are responsible to give our pets the best care we can manage for the rest of their lives.
Re: URGENT:PARASETIC QUEEN ANT
are all social parasites the same genus as the species as their host?
Some of My Informative Sheets
https://forum.AntsCanada.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=19099
Includes :
https://forum.AntsCanada.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=19099
Includes :
- Ant Care Sheets
Queen Hunting
How To Identify Ants
Re: URGENT:PARASETIC QUEEN ANT
Yes.But It Ripped Apart A Lasius Neoniger I Offered.
Keeping ants for 6 years now.
Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax
Current Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Camponotus decipiens,Camponotus snellingi Solenopsis invicta,Nylanderia sp,Brachmyrmex patagonicus,Pheidole obscurothorax,Pheidole moerens,Pachycondyla harpax
Re: URGENT:PARASETIC QUEEN ANT
Looks like Tetramorium bicarinatum. Semi-claustral, not parasitic.
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Re: URGENT:PARASETIC QUEEN ANT
For the most part, yes, but the taxonomy hasn't quite caught up with this trend. The likes of Polyergus and Strongylognathus are still distinct genera, even though they are they are so closely related to their host species. With the exception of some guest ants (i.e. Formicoxenus, which don't enlist the workforce of their host nest) all social parasites evolved from their host.
Some ants were recently combined with their host as we discovered their relatedness:
Teleutomyrmex and Anergates have recently been reunited with their host, Tetramorium.
Acanthomyops (the claviger group of Lasius) used to be its own genus.
Temnothorax americanus used to be part of Harpagoxenus.
Most social parasites were never separated from their host genus.
If you enjoy my expertise and identifications, please do not put wild populations at risk of disease by releasing pet colonies. We are responsible to give our pets the best care we can manage for the rest of their lives.
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