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QJH2023 wrote: ↑

Wed May 06, 2020 7:50 am

Camponotus vicinus queen yes

Thank you very much.

Hopefully this will suffice, I'm not good at posting photos to forums:

http://imgur.com/a/qlfi2dY

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I would like to know this as well.

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