Need help identifying queens

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Need help identifying queens

Post: # 35689Post BeginnerAntKeeper
Mon May 07, 2018 3:15 am

I need help identifying these queens.
1st queen: solenopsis?

Image
https://ibb.co/jRYbdn
2nd queen:
Image
https://ibb.co/kVptPS
3rd queen:
Image
https://ibb.co/kVptPS
Founding
1 Unknown sp (Paratopula?)
1 Nylanderia sp.
3 Camponotus Irritans
3 Pheidole sp. (or 2?)

Colonies:
1 (failed) Crematogaster sp. colony
Abt 5 Pheidole colonies
1 Ghost ant colony

ID’ed with help from those at Formiculture forums

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antnest8
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Re: Need help identifying queens

Post: # 35774Post antnest8
Tue May 08, 2018 2:57 pm

i need your general location for the ID right now you could be in Japan or in Greenland.

also the second and third queens have the same pics
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Re: Need help identifying queens

Post: # 35809Post BeginnerAntKeeper
Wed May 09, 2018 12:27 am

Sorry
Caught all the queens in Singapore
Uploaded new urls
1st queen:
https://ibb.co/kqyyTn
2nd queen:
https://ibb.co/kUK58n
3rd queen:
https://ibb.co/igB7M7
Founding
1 Unknown sp (Paratopula?)
1 Nylanderia sp.
3 Camponotus Irritans
3 Pheidole sp. (or 2?)

Colonies:
1 (failed) Crematogaster sp. colony
Abt 5 Pheidole colonies
1 Ghost ant colony

ID’ed with help from those at Formiculture forums

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Re: Need help identifying queens

Post: # 35813Post antnest8
Wed May 09, 2018 5:42 am

ill try to get you an ID this afternoon or tomorrow :D cause their are a lot of ants in singapore
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https://forum.AntsCanada.com/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=19099
Includes :
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    Queen Hunting
    How To Identify Ants
Goal is to become #2 poster on the forum

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Re: Need help identifying queens

Post: # 35839Post BeginnerAntKeeper
Thu May 10, 2018 5:45 am

Also can u help identify this ant? It’s just a worker but I have a queen of the same species so it’s useful to know species. Might be Camponotus?

https://ibb.co/cfRoTy
Founding
1 Unknown sp (Paratopula?)
1 Nylanderia sp.
3 Camponotus Irritans
3 Pheidole sp. (or 2?)

Colonies:
1 (failed) Crematogaster sp. colony
Abt 5 Pheidole colonies
1 Ghost ant colony

ID’ed with help from those at Formiculture forums

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Re: Need help identifying queens

Post: # 35846Post antnest8
Thu May 10, 2018 2:38 pm

can you get mesurments?
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    Queen Hunting
    How To Identify Ants
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Re: Need help identifying queens

Post: # 35856Post BeginnerAntKeeper
Fri May 11, 2018 3:51 am

antnest8 wrote:
Thu May 10, 2018 2:38 pm
can you get mesurments?
Ok

1st queen(crematogaster/solenopsis)
0.5cm
2nd queen(solenopsis?)
0.7cm
3rd queen(unknown)
About 0.5cm
Probably infertile bcuz it never laid any eggs
4th queen(definitely Camponotus sp.)
About 1.3cm
I think it’s bigger cuz I fed it recently

I’m scared about the Camponotus bcuz I heard Camponotus sp. gets stressed easily and I get overexcited and check them everyday :?
Founding
1 Unknown sp (Paratopula?)
1 Nylanderia sp.
3 Camponotus Irritans
3 Pheidole sp. (or 2?)

Colonies:
1 (failed) Crematogaster sp. colony
Abt 5 Pheidole colonies
1 Ghost ant colony

ID’ed with help from those at Formiculture forums

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Re: Need help identifying queens

Post: # 35857Post BeginnerAntKeeper
Fri May 11, 2018 4:20 am

Did some research I’m pretty sure queen 4 is Camponotus tortuganus but pls check just in case

I mean check the worker pic cos the queen is from the same species as the worker(I know that cos I got them from the same colony when I abducted it as an alate and got it mated with a male I found)
Founding
1 Unknown sp (Paratopula?)
1 Nylanderia sp.
3 Camponotus Irritans
3 Pheidole sp. (or 2?)

Colonies:
1 (failed) Crematogaster sp. colony
Abt 5 Pheidole colonies
1 Ghost ant colony

ID’ed with help from those at Formiculture forums

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Re: Need help identifying queens

Post: # 36097Post BeginnerAntKeeper
Fri May 18, 2018 11:20 pm

1st queen bore its first nanitic!!! :mrgreen:
Hopefully it will help in identification

Links:
https://ibb.co/iQ5n5o
https://ibb.co/mNndBT
Founding
1 Unknown sp (Paratopula?)
1 Nylanderia sp.
3 Camponotus Irritans
3 Pheidole sp. (or 2?)

Colonies:
1 (failed) Crematogaster sp. colony
Abt 5 Pheidole colonies
1 Ghost ant colony

ID’ed with help from those at Formiculture forums

BeginnerAntKeeper
Posts: 12
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Re: Need help identifying queens

Post: # 36261Post BeginnerAntKeeper
Wed May 23, 2018 3:28 am

Caught a new queen

Links:
https://ibb.co/bVTv0o
https://ibb.co/fbQKRT

Prob Camponotus, what species I don’t know

It has 2 petioles labeled in this photo:
https://ibb.co/jdoERT
Founding
1 Unknown sp (Paratopula?)
1 Nylanderia sp.
3 Camponotus Irritans
3 Pheidole sp. (or 2?)

Colonies:
1 (failed) Crematogaster sp. colony
Abt 5 Pheidole colonies
1 Ghost ant colony

ID’ed with help from those at Formiculture forums

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