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.
Nuptial flights in the UAE
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Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
Why keep ants that aren't found in your yard?
There are so many fascinating ants right where you live!
I disagree with the keeping/buying of ants that aren't in your area.
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Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
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.
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Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
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
I have found this near my building:
https://imgur.com/a/vowIExv
is it a queen?
https://imgur.com/a/vowIExv
is it a queen?
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Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
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.
Why keep ants that aren't found in your yard?
There are so many fascinating ants right where you live!
I disagree with the keeping/buying of ants that aren't in your area.
Join Ants, Plants, and Myrmecology: https://discord.gg/BeQuNf8yTN
There are so many fascinating ants right where you live!
I disagree with the keeping/buying of ants that aren't in your area.
Join Ants, Plants, and Myrmecology: https://discord.gg/BeQuNf8yTN
Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
got some more photos of the specimen:
https://imgur.com/a/euif0XZ
https://imgur.com/a/euif0XZ
Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
it's a queen?
Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
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.
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Re: Nuptial flights in the UAE
also she is about 8mm long
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