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http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Golden-tailed-Spiny-Ant/Polyrhachis/ammon.html

Is it just a worker?

https://imgur.com/a/Ca0n2
https://imgur.com/a/PnjVj

Oh well this will have to do :/

Struggling to upload photos but am 99.99% sure she is a Golden Tailed Spiny ant, possibly a queen to.

G'day all just found this ant on a water tank on my property, looks very interesting.
It was solitary and has a golden back and is about 10-12mm long.
I don't think it is but could it be a queen?
Should add this is Australia, NSW/QLD border east coast area.

Thank you! After all 3 queens pupated their first workers I decided to keep only 1 queen, it was a hard choice but I chose to keep the first queen as she and her workers seem to have more personality and are smaller which should mean they are easier to contain. The other 2 queens were realeased and ...

I feel so bad for that Queen that was being swarmed, I'm not trying to say you did any wrong but you should have captured her instantly & not looked away. But I bet in the heat of the moment you didn't know what to do. Not trying to say you did any wrong, though, hopefully she & the others made it ...

Second one looks like Camponotus consobrinus

Thanks mate,

Can't take any good photos at the moment as my camera is stuffed so I have to use an iPad instead...

Whoops bit of a stuff up,

Second link is another blokes on this forums link.