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Are you sure. It's body looks too similar to a ant

this ant(?) came in on some lettuce. just curious if it's a male ant or something else? https://scontent.fyxd1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/37806151_1745570295490920_183101722913144832_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=e0839f0876bb58c26a35903c6a4b5bc6&oe=5BD7F45D https://scontent.fyxd1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/3779616...

Thanks for the reply.

Do queens die when they aren't fertile? Almost like giving up on life because they won't have workers to take care of them?

So I've been trying to come up with a solution for hibernating my ants. This is my first attempt at keeping ants. I currently have 8 formica spp. Queens. So I was looking at using a second hand mini fridge but I figured if I was gonna buy something I would like to buy something where I can set the t...

I just had the queen that was identified as podzilica did in the last week

Caught 8 queens on August 6 and one of the 8 died sometime between last Saturday and today. It was caught without wings on(I know this doesn't indicate anything) caught in the central Alberta area keep at room or warmer. I had posted picture here and was identified as a formica (podzilica?) Queen. I...

Any social parasites or semi-claistrals?

So Queen 8 was caught on august 6 with most of the others but when we were grabbing some more picture of her tonight we noticed a couple of copper-ish bumps on her gaster near her thorax. Upon closer inspection the were little insects (possibly mites?) wondering what we can do to get rid of these or...

Hey we caught some queens on august 6th we need identified, a couple have already been identified but wanted to get the rest identified. (some queen numbers missing because 3,4,5 have been identified) Queen 1 http://imageshack.com/a/img922/9390/OMuujb.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img922/9064/adlz2C.j...

so i caught 8 queens a couple weeks ago and 2 this week, I've had a few of them identified here, one as formica aserva which is a social parasite she has a single host workers eclosed from pupae(the rest still haven't eclosed yet) that we took from another formica nest. She appears to be doing well ...