Queen ID Eastern Ontario
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Queen ID Eastern Ontario
4 queens caught late in the season (mid September I think).
8-9 mm
Black bodies / redish legs
Found in Ottawa Ont.
Im guessing Crematogaster sp.
Hope thats enough for a positive id.
8-9 mm
Black bodies / redish legs
Found in Ottawa Ont.
Im guessing Crematogaster sp.
Hope thats enough for a positive id.
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Crematogaster lineolata.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25
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Thank you
1 more
Light brown
Caught august-September
5-6 mm
Perferring peanut butter
Couldn't get a great angle, hope the workers will help with id.
1 more
Light brown
Caught august-September
5-6 mm
Perferring peanut butter
Couldn't get a great angle, hope the workers will help with id.
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why do you have queens together they are not polygenous
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Apparently there have been cases of polygenous colonies, doing my own little experiment. I have a feeling 2 of them may stop laying eggs and act as workers or they may be forced out once the colony reaches a certain size.
http://www.myrmecos.net/2013/05/09/crematogaster-lineolata-is-polygynous-i-wish-a-had-a-better-photograph/
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hmm it would be an interesting experiment but be careful crematogaster is a harder species to find. keep us updated on the progress
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Will do
So far they haven't done much, tending to the eggs and grooming each other. They're put away now and I'll check on them in a month.
Hoping to get an ID on the possible tetrimorium in this thread...bump
So far they haven't done much, tending to the eggs and grooming each other. They're put away now and I'll check on them in a month.
Hoping to get an ID on the possible tetrimorium in this thread...bump
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The workers and queen look like Temnothorax (acorn ant) or Leptothorax (no common name). The queen looks like Tetramorium, but the workers do not, so they couldn't be Tetramorium. And different species don't get along so well.
And queens don't lay eggs of different species! :lol:
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Lol thank you AntsDakotaAntsDakota wrote: ↑Sun Apr 08, 2018 1:12 pm
The workers and queen look like Temnothorax (acorn ant) or Leptothorax (no common name). The queen looks like Tetramorium, but the workers do not, so they couldn't be Tetramorium. And different species don't get along so well.
And queens don't lay eggs of different species!
Very likely it's Temnothorax curvispinosus, explains the peanut butter and nesting in the cotton.
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If they're getting along, they will probably make it through the founding stage at least. And maybe they could be polygynous, even though we haven't discovered it yet. Remember our conversation about my Lasius queens? So this might be a new discovery! Keep going!
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