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Hello everyone! I'm posting here because in the last few days I've started seeing a small pile of dead ants and what I think are pieces of dismembered ants (but I am not 100% sure on this one tho, since I do feed my ants other small insects and it could be parts of them). I know that ants will carry...

This is my second year of ant keeping (I am an owner of a Lasius Niger colony) and my second ant hibernation, but I am experiencing some odd behaviour. Last winter I put put my ants into hibernation at the beggining of December, as they already started to snuggle up for winter. I had no problems wit...

I also think she is tetramorium, since she appears to have a double petiole. But why doesn't she have any larvae or eggs (the eggs, that she had, have disappeared)? Anyway, here are the extra pics: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T6hiT8FSoLZROFnZTXhujtTgWVhmdpND/view?usp=sharing https://drive.googl...

*This is a re-post, because the original was completely ignored* I have caught a queen ant and need help identifying her species. She is 6 mm long and was cought on 6. september 2018, on my balcony. I was expecting she would have some larvae by now, but she only has a few eggs (she has them for a fe...

I have caught a queen and need help identifying her species. She was cought on 6. september 2018, on my balcony. I was expecting she would have some larvae by now, but she only has a few eggs (she has them for a few weeks now already and doesn't give them much attention). Could it be, that she is un...

Thank you for your help guys!

Queen closeups: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hXkGs8y6wGRzBISDNyWVBXVTJYNFU4UEEzcElFRTBOYzVV/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hXkGs8y6wGLWZtbV9HelJQczhaTE1MLS1YNXVVYUoxa0tN/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hXkGs8y6wGRC1ENzgwR3lzWjFVZkItcE9oQTBkZlNhMU5B/view...

Sadly this is the closest I can do.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hXkGs8y6wGZnNwWEtUeXVRazBGTWd0YmhXQ1l3bmtEbFlv/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/****/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hXkGs8y6wGdEJyWGRKUFoxc3oxN2VZeFZXZlNBdE8xaFkw/view?usp=sharing

Thank you Alexander!

I have caught 4 queen ants and I think 2 of them are from the same species (I wonder if they are polygynous). I found them all in the summer, in northeast part of Slovenia, Europe. 1. Images: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UJhZSzzm4TrLzsITE1FI7ZFQul0JNP43/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/...