Is this a queen?

[LeoTheAnt]

Just checked on her and she's dead.

[Solenopsisace]

So it's a camponotus species?

I was just assuming it was ,but u need a detailed pic of the antenna,eyes,the way it has hairs on it,etc...to really know what it is for sure.an sry to hear that.what was u keepin her in?

[LeoTheAnt]

I was keeping her in the traditional test tube setup.

[Solenopsisace]

She must of got to stressed out .i started out catching them in pill bottles.i had this **** bottle that kept over dosing the queens cause i forgot to wipe the pill dust out.yep typical rookie mistake

[Mdrogun]

no, this is definitely not Camponotus. It is a parasitic Lasius queen of some sort. She starved to death because she has little to no fat reserves unlike most queens.

[cdms325]

Yes that is definitely a queen! I remember catching lots of those exact species! A few summers ago I was playing on my computer and my mom called me so I went to her and she said is this the queen you were looking for? And I said yes! I lost hope at that point until I my mom found one in the weirdest spot at the weirdest time. It laid lots of eggs and I even got to watch it lay some! They never hatched and in eventually died D: last summer I went to a sleep away camp and I told my friends how interested I was in ants there so when I was playing dodgeball they pulled me out and they caught 1! We then stayed there for a while and found 2 more! When I went back to my cabin a fourth one flew up to me but I didn't catch it. By the time I got home I had only 1 queen left as the others escaped. The last one I had laid eggs that didn't hatch AGAIN. It died a few months ago.






I know that nobody will read this huge "story" but I kinda just typed it out of Bordom as I wait for the horse race to start any chance if that one you caught is a spare one? ;3 I live in CT as well.

[cdms325]

Oh never mind I just saw you said it was dead R.I.P but it looked very skinny so you might of caught it sick or old so it would of died soon anyways. Happy ant hunting!

[Mdrogun]

Yes that is definitely a queen! I remember catching lots of those exact species! A few summers ago I was playing on my computer and my mom called me so I went to her and she said is this the queen you were looking for? And I said yes! I lost hope at that point until I my mom found one in the weirdest spot at the weirdest time. It laid lots of eggs and I even got to watch it lay some! They never hatched and in eventually died D: last summer I went to a sleep away camp and I told my friends how interested I was in ants there so when I was playing dodgeball they pulled me out and they caught 1! We then stayed there for a while and found 2 more! When I went back to my cabin a fourth one flew up to me but I didn't catch it. By the time I got home I had only 1 queen left as the others escaped. The last one I had laid eggs that didn't hatch AGAIN. It died a few months ago.






I know that nobody will read this huge "story" but I kinda just typed it out of Bordom as I wait for the horse race to start any chance if that one you caught is a spare one? ;3 I live in CT as well.

If the queens you had caught were this species, they wouldn't have laid eggs without any brood given to them.