Identify that queen!!!!

[carsonman99]

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,

[Batspiderfish]

Don't estimate. Tetramorium sp. E, which is 6-8 mm long.

[carsonman99]

Don't estimate. Tetramorium sp. E, which is 6-8 mm long.

So your saying I'm a little off in my estimate?

[Batspiderfish]

Well, unless your hands are really small. WAIT, ARE YOU DONALD TRUMP?

[carsonman99]

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?!?

[AntOblivion]

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?!?

Yes my friend your queen is fertile

[Martialis]

Fertile, yes. Fertilized? Not possible to tell until the pupae eclose.

[carsonman99]

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]

Yay! I have a healthy happy several hundred worker tetramorium colony. Feel free to ask me any and all questions about tetramorium!