Is this tetramorium or phedole
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Is this tetramorium or phedole
I assume this queen is a Tetramorium but i just want to make sure, also she has workers for comparison.
sorry about the fuzzy image quality
sorry about the fuzzy image quality
- idahoantgirl
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Re: Is this tetramorium or phedole
Not tetramorium. Something else...
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
Re: Is this tetramorium or phedole
Let me know if you need better image quality. I will try to get better images.
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Re: Is this tetramorium or phedole
Yea tetramorium workers aren’t really that red
Keeping:
Tetramorium immigrans x2
Anything but tetramorium please
Tetramorium immigrans x2
Anything but tetramorium please
- Batspiderfish
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Re: Is this tetramorium or phedole
I wouldn't make a guess just based on coloration, but I can hardly see the ants.
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Re: Is this tetramorium or phedole
I'll take new images; those workers are a month old BTW.
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Re: Is this tetramorium or phedole
Yea you’re right, the ones I have though are like jet black, a completely different color. Although it could be a different species...Batspiderfish wrote: ↑Sun Nov 05, 2017 7:25 pmI wouldn't make a guess just based on coloration, but I can hardly see the ants.
Better pictures of the queen would be good, but she does look like tetramorium.
Keeping:
Tetramorium immigrans x2
Anything but tetramorium please
Tetramorium immigrans x2
Anything but tetramorium please
Re: Is this tetramorium or phedole
I'd say pheidole since the queen's head is so large. Perhaps Pheidole Pallidula.
Once (if) they produce majors, (huge heads), that'll narrow down the options.
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