Worker ID with microscope pictures? + few old of queen
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Worker ID with microscope pictures? + few old of queen
Hey guys it's been a while but I've recently got my usb microscope or whatever and I thought I'll try to get and ID on one of my colony I have over a year and couldn't get it exactly classified yet. Sadly (or probably not for them) they live in a naturalistic habitat so I have no way getting new pictures of the queen who has been captured last year around early april in Hungary. The bright side is that I have access to (naturally) dead workers if you need more pictures, I've taken the following ones of a live one so they might be a bit blurry. (She is well and was released back to the colony)
After taking the worker images I realized I had a calibration paper to tell exact size but I forgot it so meh the worker is around 0.5 centimeters
Queen shots made with phone (old):
Worker images made with 40x zoom (said):
Worker images made with1000x zoom (said):
Back of the head
Thorax
Head
After taking the worker images I realized I had a calibration paper to tell exact size but I forgot it so meh the worker is around 0.5 centimeters
Queen shots made with phone (old):
Worker images made with 40x zoom (said):
Worker images made with1000x zoom (said):
Back of the head
Thorax
Head
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Re: Worker ID with microscope pictures? + few old of queen
Workers are definitely 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
- idahoantgirl
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- Joined: Sat Sep 12, 2015 11:52 am
- Location: Idaho, USA
Re: Worker ID with microscope pictures? + few old of queen
Workers are definitely 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
Re: Worker ID with microscope pictures? + few old of queen
Well that's her queen so they are then, thanks Maybe anything more specific?
- idahoantgirl
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- Location: Idaho, USA
Re: Worker ID with microscope pictures? + few old of queen
Tetramroium caespitum to be exact.
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: Worker ID with microscope pictures? + few old of queen
Thanks I think you are right because their lifestyle meets with what I've observed and also the pictures seem to match, I've seen darker and lighter colored ones but not sure what that means, mine are rather on the light yellow side of the palette
Re: Worker ID with microscope pictures? + few old of queen
how do you get microscope pictures
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Re: Worker ID with microscope pictures? + few old of queen
Thanks for the idea. i got some microscope pics from getting a microscope and putting the lens on the seeing part.
Some of My Informative Sheets
https://forum.AntsCanada.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=19099
Includes :
https://forum.AntsCanada.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=19099
Includes :
- Ant Care Sheets
Queen Hunting
How To Identify Ants
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