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The queen

I caught this queen when her colony decided to move her into a cereal box in my cupboard. I quickly tossed her and some workers in a ziplock with a test tube setup and she has started laying eggs after just a couple days.

4-5mm long, Maryland, Caught March 5

That would make sense. I caught some Lasius claviger queens a couple days ago. The large head made me think queen, but the smaller gaster had me confused.

Caught at a porch light. I had thousands of Brachymrymex queens flying and caught this among them.

There were a lot of ants flying yesterday afternoon. #13 I am guessing is Brachymyrmex depilis . # 12, and #14-#18 I am guessing are Lasius spp. I am hoping they aren't social parasites as I don't have colonies available for them to parasitize. Here are some of them emerging from a nest: http://i.im...

I just became a GAN farmer in Maryland. I have two Lasius colonies for sale now.

I have some extra photos of the Lasius sp. queens 3 and 4. These are the first two queens I have to have nanitics. These are 2 of the 3 Lasius queens caught in August. The remaining August Lasius has no eggs/brood. I also caught a Tetramorium at the same time and it appears to only have a single egg...

RainbowScience wrote: I am surprised by how dark queen 8 appears in the picture, aren't B. depilis typically yellow? Mine is very yellow.

I think that is from the lighting. They are all a yellow-y orange. They were so light in color that it was hard to see them on the white sidewalk pavement.

Thank you! I plan to sell/give away all but one of these queens (there don't seem to be any GAN farmers in Maryland) so I'd like to be able to provide a good ID to the new at mom/dad.I'll try to get some better photos when the first nanitics appear. I'm using plastic culture tubes rather than glass ...