Please help me identify this ant

Help with identifying the species your ants

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Nunu699
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Please help me identify this ant

Post: # 46498Post Nunu699
Fri Aug 03, 2018 11:19 am

Hello!

Recently I began to take an interest in the hobby of ant-keeping, and I was very excited yesterday when I found what I believe to be a queen ant. However, I am very new to all of this, and I am slightly concerned that I may have just found a large worker, or perhaps a species of ant that is not at all recommended for beginners, so to get to the point, would anybody be able to inform me to:
A) Whether or not the ant is a queen
B) Assuming that it is a queen, what species it is
C) whether or not it is an advisable species of ant for someone very new to the hobby

Image: https://imgur.com/a/SzcuLCM

I only managed to get one decent picture, but if it isn't enough to identify it, I would be happy to take some more.

Many thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this :D

AnAntNoob
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Re: Please help me identify this ant

Post: # 46694Post AnAntNoob
Mon Aug 06, 2018 9:05 am

I'm no expert, but pretty sure thats a queen. Could be wrong tho.
Currently founding:
Parasitic laisus

Waiting for Trachymyrmex septentrionalis, Prenolepis imparis, and Lasius aphidicola.

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idahoantgirl
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Re: Please help me identify this ant

Post: # 46700Post idahoantgirl
Mon Aug 06, 2018 9:20 am

looks like a formica queen. Pretty good for beinners
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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