need help finding out the sp of this queen ant

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Kjmixr
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need help finding out the sp of this queen ant

Post: # 58825Post Kjmixr
Tue May 28, 2019 10:28 pm

Found her on the sidewalk I live in canada Alberta Devon it looks somewhat like the carpenter ants I catch same size and everything but the middle is completely red unlike the other carpenter ants I have there middles are completely black and for some reason it won’t let me paste a pic of it in hear what it keeps saying is the files to big

JoeHostile1
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Re: need help finding out the sp of this queen ant

Post: # 58839Post JoeHostile1
Wed May 29, 2019 8:10 am

Is it a camponotus novaeboracensis?
Keeping:
Tetramorium immigrans * Lasius Neoniger * Lasius Claviger * Messor Aciculatus * Myrmica Rubra * Camponotus Novaeboracensis * Camponotus Turkastanus * Pheidole Pallidula

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Kjmixr
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Re: need help finding out the sp of this queen ant

Post: # 58847Post Kjmixr
Wed May 29, 2019 1:01 pm

Yes it is I think thank you

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Re: need help finding out the sp of this queen ant

Post: # 58920Post AntsDakota
Thu May 30, 2019 5:57 pm

Kjmixr wrote:
Wed May 29, 2019 1:01 pm
Yes it is I think thank you
C. heruleanus and C. nearcticus also can have red thoraxes. It is impossible to distinguish between them without photos. If you are having trouble posting pictures here, set up an account on imgur.com and display the link to the photo.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25

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