Identify that queen!!!!
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Identify that queen!!!!
Location: Indiana, Mooresville
Found: On top of car early morning almost drowned in morning dew
Size: 1.5 - 2.5 mm (Estimate)
Details: brown and black striped abdomen, no stinger present,
Found: On top of car early morning almost drowned in morning dew
Size: 1.5 - 2.5 mm (Estimate)
Details: brown and black striped abdomen, no stinger present,
- Batspiderfish
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Re: Identify that queen!!!!
Don't estimate. Tetramorium sp. E, which is 6-8 mm long.
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: Identify that queen!!!!
So your saying I'm a little off in my estimate?Batspiderfish wrote: ↑Tue Jun 13, 2017 10:28 amDon't estimate. Tetramorium sp. E, which is 6-8 mm long.
- Batspiderfish
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Re: Identify that queen!!!!
Well, unless your hands are really small. WAIT, ARE YOU DONALD TRUMP?
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: Identify that queen!!!!
UPDATE! Just checked on the queen this morning and she tore her wings off and seemed to be pretty relaxed but clinging to the dry cotton instead of the wet cotton. Is the wing part a for sure sign that she is fertile?!?
Re: Identify that queen!!!!
Yes my friend your queen is fertilecarsonman99 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 14, 2017 10:40 amUPDATE! Just checked on the queen this morning and she tore her wings off and seemed to be pretty relaxed but clinging to the dry cotton instead of the wet cotton. Is the wing part a for sure sign that she is fertile?!?
Re: Identify that queen!!!!
Fertile, yes. Fertilized? Not possible to tell until the pupae eclose.
Keeper of
Selliing:
Selliing:
Re: Identify that queen!!!!
She laid a ton of eggs and she is tending them as well as keeping them together in a chunk. Chances are she is fertilized which makes me a happy ant keeper! Very excited to raise a tetramorium colony
- idahoantgirl
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Re: Identify that queen!!!!
Yay! I have a healthy happy several hundred worker tetramorium colony. Feel free to ask me any and all questions about tetramorium!
Proverbs 6:6-8
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.
Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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