Found ants and possible queen in my old flower pots. Help IDENTIFY

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Dearth335

Re: Found ants and possible queen in my old flower pots. Help IDENTIFY

Post: # 32772Post Dearth335
Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:31 am

Are you sure, it appears to be a lasius queen, but the yellow workers are Lasius flavus workers, along with the male.

PRW3ants

Re: Found ants and possible queen in my old flower pots. Help IDENTIFY

Post: # 32809Post PRW3ants
Mon Nov 06, 2017 7:44 pm

Dearth335 wrote:
Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:31 am
Are you sure, it appears to be a lasius queen, but the yellow workers are Lasius flavus workers, along with the male.
Oh god. What's that mean. The winged males all died, I couldn't get them put of the enclosure to release. But all the other la including the other potential queens and yellow workers they have made themselves comfortable in the bottom.

PRW3ants

Re: Found ants and possible queen in my old flower pots. Help IDENTIFY

Post: # 32810Post PRW3ants
Mon Nov 06, 2017 8:01 pm

From pictures and my inexperienced sizing compared to pictures and behavior research. I don't think I have a fertile queen of any species it is. Unless queens grow larger over time and I have a 1st year queen newly nuptial.

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Re: Found ants and possible queen in my old flower pots. Help IDENTIFY

Post: # 32811Post Batspiderfish
Mon Nov 06, 2017 9:53 pm

The other ants do not look like Lasius flavus.

There are literally zero practical visual indicators that show whether a queen is mated or not. Social parasites do not have large gasters.
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PRW3ants

Re: Found ants and possible queen in my old flower pots. Help IDENTIFY

Post: # 32813Post PRW3ants
Tue Nov 07, 2017 8:56 am

Batspiderfish wrote:
Mon Nov 06, 2017 9:53 pm
The other ants do not look like Lasius flavus.

There are literally zero practical visual indicators that show whether a queen is mated or not. Social parasites do not have large gasters.
Ok so maybe I do have some queens. There's about 4 or 5 wingless, larger ants. I have my fingers crossed because they're so active ants.

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