Need help confirming queen

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hyenadog

Need help confirming queen

Post: # 8930Post hyenadog
Fri Jul 22, 2016 7:58 am

Just had this little guy land on my lap during a Pokemon GO walk, I wanted to check with the experts on this forum to confirm this if is a queen :D
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Re: Need help confirming queen

Post: # 8931Post Batspiderfish
Fri Jul 22, 2016 8:07 am

Formica sp. male.
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Re: Need help confirming queen

Post: # 8932Post hyenadog
Fri Jul 22, 2016 8:14 am

Batspiderfish wrote:Formica sp. male.
Dang. I figured with the small abdomen. Thanks!
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Re: Need help confirming queen

Post: # 8935Post Batspiderfish
Fri Jul 22, 2016 8:51 am

The tiny head, relative to the body, is usually a giveaway. ;)

Queens of some species will have small abdomens, such as the social parasites and semi-claustral foragers.
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Re: Need help confirming queen

Post: # 8936Post hyenadog
Fri Jul 22, 2016 8:57 am

Awesome! Thanks so much for the info! Since I just found this male today I figured there would be queens out so I went for another walk and caught two more ants. I think these are queens simply because I caught them wingless and they are fat :P
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Re: Need help confirming queen

Post: # 8938Post Batspiderfish
Fri Jul 22, 2016 9:07 am

Bingo! Two Tetramorium queens at the late end of this genus' mating season. :D
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Re: Need help confirming queen

Post: # 8939Post hyenadog
Fri Jul 22, 2016 9:10 am

Batspiderfish wrote:Bingo! Two Tetramorium queens at the late end of this genus' mating season. :D
YES! Thank you, I finally caught my queen! I was hoping for Formica but a queen is a queen!
Cant wait to build my own colony!
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Re: Need help confirming queen

Post: # 8945Post AntsRule
Fri Jul 22, 2016 4:46 pm

hyenadog wrote:
Batspiderfish wrote:Bingo! Two Tetramorium queens at the late end of this genus' mating season. :D
YES! Thank you, I finally caught my queen! I was hoping for Formica but a queen is a queen!
Cant wait to build my own colony!
Also looks a bit like a pheidol, would a closer pic be possible? :D
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Re: Need help confirming queen

Post: # 8948Post hyenadog
Fri Jul 22, 2016 5:42 pm

AntsRule wrote:
hyenadog wrote:
Batspiderfish wrote:Bingo! Two Tetramorium queens at the late end of this genus' mating season. :D
YES! Thank you, I finally caught my queen! I was hoping for Formica but a queen is a queen!
Cant wait to build my own colony!
Also looks a bit like a pheidol, would a closer pic be possible? :D
For sure! I will be sure to post some better pictures soon! Both the queens are relaxing in their test tube setups in a dark sealed off room, I might wait a few days for the queens to get comfortable so I can get better pictures.
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Re: Need help confirming queen

Post: # 8950Post idahoantgirl
Fri Jul 22, 2016 7:15 pm

AntsRule wrote:
hyenadog wrote:
Batspiderfish wrote:Bingo! Two Tetramorium queens at the late end of this genus' mating season. :D
YES! Thank you, I finally caught my queen! I was hoping for Formica but a queen is a queen!
Cant wait to build my own colony!
Also looks a bit like a pheidol, would a closer pic be possible? :D
No. It is definitely not pheidole. I have caught a lot of these queens before and I am 100 percent sure its tetramorium
Proverbs 6:6-8

Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile
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