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Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2023 8:24 pm
by antperson24
RaptorX wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 2:28 pm
Yeah but the ants i saw were 1cm not 2mm
No, I mean the little black bar in the bottom right. The ant in the antwiki photo is 8mm, but ants can very in size a little bit.
Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2023 9:28 pm
by SYUTEO
RaptorX wrote: ↑Thu Apr 06, 2023 2:28 pm
Yeah but the ants i saw were 1cm not 2mm
That 2mm bar is for reference, there is no
Polyrhachis species that is 2mm long. That ant you found is indeed
Polyrhachis lacteipennis, it's the right size, right colour, right location, and right body features. I can't find information for the nuptial flights of this species but looking when the queen holotype images are uploaded onto antweb, they probably fly right now.
Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2023 10:53 am
by RaptorX
I have officially lost hope in starting an ant colony, I have been going out every single day for almost 2 months and the best thing I found was a spiny ant colony
Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2023 4:48 am
by RaptorX
I have found this near my building:
https://imgur.com/a/vowIExv
is it a queen?
Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2023 8:37 am
by antperson24
RaptorX wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 4:48 am
I have found this near my building:
https://imgur.com/a/vowIExv
is it a queen?
Is there any way you could get a better photo? It would be helpful to have one from the side, so I can see her thorax.
Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
Posted: Thu Apr 13, 2023 11:26 am
by RaptorX
got some more photos of the specimen:
https://imgur.com/a/euif0XZ
Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 7:49 am
by RaptorX
so?
Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 8:30 am
by RaptorX
it's a queen?
Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2023 7:55 pm
by SYUTEO
Do you have clearer pictures? This one actually looks like a queen, it really resembles my
Trichomyrmex cf mayri queen, whose colony escaped
, I really liked this colony, especially since you can get majors as nanitics.
Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2023 1:45 am
by RaptorX
also she is about 8mm long