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Meant no offence, I did believe you over the antwiki anyway. Just trying to help with what tools I can find and with what I can see. Its always best to leave it to the pros anyway. I can never be a doc with web MD just as I cant be a ant specialist with antwiki

Thanks! Again learning here and doing my best at the research. I was looking at glacialis earlier but the rear seemed to have a slightly different shape (maybe just the pic on ant wiki). According to the ant wiki they can be found in Alberta http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Formica_glacialis - but I'll s...

I have her in a small jar with some coconut "dirt" and a flat rock for honey (and water thing obviously. Usually not a good idea for a founding queen to not do the test tube tingy but A) if there is mites, hopefully she can shake 'em off B) sometimes gotta work with what you've got. :D Has anyone ev...

Thx a tonne. Ant mites I assume are not a problem for humans
I'll re-watch the vid cause its been so long

Poor thing - treatment options?

I am new as well butI seem to end up looking at this website because you can get a list of species by country:

www.antwiki.org

Much easier to narrow down things.

Thanks again on the ID Formica podzolica - much appreciated.

The second pic is the best I could get, by the rear leg. I will try some more when she positions herself just right. Don't have a test tube right now so making due with another small container which makes things harder to get photos. She has eaten some honey offered and "buried" the rest (covered it...

2 more photos uploaded

That was the first time I saw her curled up. She does have a twitchy leg - very front left, not all the time though. That appendage looks like a little tiny leg though. Very docile otherwise. If she does have mites it may be a small scale infection but I would be very sad.