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Those look all like workers to me, queens are usually much larger and havea bigger abdomen and thorax or messoma. Correct me if im wrong.

Alright thanks for the info!.

Tetramorium fly in the early morning but finding them is pretty easy unless theres not alot of them where you are. I believe they fly through the months of late may to june/early july. In North america at least i think. Like around 5:00-6:00 in the mornings is when i have seen them flying.

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Hey guys i just caught a camponotus queen recently and im just wondering if its ok to put her test tube in a slightly dusty drawer, like im not sure if the dust will affect the queen or anything. Its like only a little dusty so im wondering if the queen will be alright.

Hi i live in BC as well and to me the first two queens in your photos that are smaller look to be tetramorium species, possibly tetramorium immigrans which is quite common here in BC. However the last queen looks like camponotus, becuase of its black color it looks like camponotus pensylvanicus. The...

Hi i know this is a late response but it looks to me like the queens you caught are either camponotus or formica. Im no expert in this but i live in bc as well, and didnt find anything except lasius americanus and tetramorium immigrans. Which part of vancouver were you in when you caught those queens?

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It is very likely that you have just caught a supermajor worker. If you take a better picture then i can help you more but it looks like a worker to me. You may have to release it back from where you found it.

Unfortunately i dont think that ant is a queen. In queens the middle part (thorax or mesosoma) is more thick as it has to support the wings and wing muscles. However your picture is quite small and blurry so maybe im wrong but its likely that it isn't a queen. If the ant has wing scars then its defi...