Please help me identify this species!!

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YSTheAnt
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Please help me identify this species!!

Post: # 29916Post YSTheAnt
Tue Aug 22, 2017 10:17 pm

http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/Ys2000ANTS/media/cGF0aDovSU1HXzIwMTcwODIyXzE4NDQwMl96cHN1Y29lcndrbS5qcGc=/?ref=1
I caught this on 8/22/17 (sorry for poor picture quality, I don't have a real camera on hand) About 2 - 4 mm
I know this isn't a queen, but I have never seen these ants in my area and today evening, I her running around near a play structure in a park, right next to a forest. I think it is lasius, and the flights are about to happen, so I would appreciate a response. Let me know if you want more pictures.
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Camponotus Modoc(6 workers)
Pheidole Spp (2 queens, about 10 workers)
Possibly parasitic Formica (further ID required)
Novomessor Cockerelli (10+ workers)
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AntsRule
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Re: Please help me identify this species!!

Post: # 29920Post AntsRule
Tue Aug 22, 2017 11:00 pm

I think its Camponotus pennsylvanicus worker
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Camponotus Pennsylvanicus
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YSTheAnt
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Re: Please help me identify this species!!

Post: # 29958Post YSTheAnt
Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:33 am

Are you sure? I though camponotus had much smaller workers than that. If not lasius, maybe odorous house ants?
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Possibly parasitic Formica (further ID required)
Novomessor Cockerelli (10+ workers)
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Re: Please help me identify this species!!

Post: # 29962Post Batspiderfish
Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:49 am

Probably Dorymyrmex sp., or possibly Liomeptum. Hard to tell from the one photograph.
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YSTheAnt
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Re: Please help me identify this species!!

Post: # 29965Post YSTheAnt
Wed Aug 23, 2017 10:42 am

Here's another photo. http://s1149.photobucket.com/user/Ys2000ANTS/media/IMG_20170822_183843_zpsk7zq5spg.jpg.html?filters[user]=146763850&filters[recent]=1&sort=1&o=0
Check out my blog: bayareaants.blogspot.com
Keeper of:
Camponotus Modoc(6 workers)
Pheidole Spp (2 queens, about 10 workers)
Possibly parasitic Formica (further ID required)
Novomessor Cockerelli (10+ workers)
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YSTheAnt
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Re: Please help me identify this species!!

Post: # 30039Post YSTheAnt
Thu Aug 24, 2017 12:29 am

YSTheAnt wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 23, 2017 9:33 am
 Are you sure? I though camponotus had much smaller workers than that. If not lasius, maybe odorous house ants?
I meant bigger workers not smaller.
Check out my blog: bayareaants.blogspot.com
Keeper of:
Camponotus Modoc(6 workers)
Pheidole Spp (2 queens, about 10 workers)
Possibly parasitic Formica (further ID required)
Novomessor Cockerelli (10+ workers)
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