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If you go to the front page there are 2 options, searching by place or by species. If you type in your state/country you will get a list with most of the local ant species. If you than go to images and select species, you will get a list filled with pictures of every species. (see picture) https://g...

If you know what species you are looking for, than you should take a look at antwiki. There usually is a picture from the queen of the species with a scale. This way you can figure out the size of the queen. You can also take a look at antweb, search your species, set it on queens only. There you wi...

As I said there is no specific size. A Myrmica queen can be 3mm long, whilst a Lasius queen is usually about 1 cm, a Camponotus queen can be 2 cm. These are not set sizes and depend on species, which depends again on where you live. If you really want to find a queen of a small species (for example ...

There is no specific size for an ant queen. For example workers form the genus Formica are mostly larger than queen form the genus Myrmica. If you want to identify queen ants you should look for the size of there thorax, these are bigger than those of workers and have wing scars. Also the abdomen is...

Hello fellow ant enthusiasts About 3 weeks ago I caught this ant queen, she hasn't laid an eggs yet. Because she hasn't laid eggs I thought she might be a temporary parasite. But when I put her together with ants of l. niger or l. flavus, she didn't act like a parasite and would stand in a corner av...

Hawkeye wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:23 pm

AntsIndiana5 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 03, 2020 2:09 pm

*google translate intensifies*

Hahaha Dutch is such an irregular language compared to English that I wouldn't be surprised that Google would translate it into gibberish

Google translate works well if you translate to dutch, but when you try German everything goes gibberish.

je mag ze niet houden

Jij hebt hier te veel plezier in =/. en ik dacht zelf dat het een kale bosmier is. Maar deze zijn beschermd in belgie, droefnis.

the difference between rufa and polyctena is that rufa has small hair visible with the eye, polyctena hairs are not visible without zoom in. since you are dutch: rufa = behaarde bosmier en polyctena = kale bosmier.

She might be a lasius fuliginosus queen, try to compare them yourself since the pictures are blurry. These have a small gastur since they are parasitic.