Ant colony identification - help needed

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Good2Know15
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Ant colony identification - help needed

Post: # 59166Post Good2Know15
Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:49 pm

Hello,
I recently found a big colony of strange looking ants in a forest near a beach in Albania where I'm on vacation right now. The worker ants are (dark) red, have big kind of triangular heads, small thorax, thin petiole, thin long legs, and a small black pointed (upwards when walking) gaster. These ants were really fast and I had a hard time filming them. Their colony nested underground and they had several small mounds of dirt not too far away from each other.

I am really curious to what kind of species that colony belongs to and therefore need help identifying them :roll:

These links to pictures may not work, so I will edit my post later. Thank you!

https://ibb.co/PgpbkxC
https://ibb.co/6rwnGJ2

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/dry5a8F
Also known as Ants_Netherlands18 on Instagram

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I have kept 48 species of 18 different genera of ants over the course of 3.5 years of antkeeping :)

For species ID, feel free to message me privately!

Good2Know15
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Re: Ant colony identification - help needed

Post: # 59168Post Good2Know15
Wed Jun 05, 2019 3:30 pm

I will try to post a video of that colony I filmed later if that could potentially help with the research :|
Also known as Ants_Netherlands18 on Instagram

Keeper of:
I have kept 48 species of 18 different genera of ants over the course of 3.5 years of antkeeping :)

For species ID, feel free to message me privately!

Good2Know15
Posts: 107
Joined: Fri Mar 01, 2019 11:13 am
Location: Netherlands

Re: Ant colony identification - help needed

Post: # 59240Post Good2Know15
Fri Jun 07, 2019 12:48 pm

Good2Know15 wrote:
Wed Jun 05, 2019 2:49 pm
Hello,
I recently found a big colony of strange looking ants in a forest near a beach in Albania where I'm on vacation right now. The worker ants are (dark) red, have big kind of triangular heads, small thorax, thin petiole, thin long legs, and a small black pointed (upwards when walking) gaster. These ants were really fast and I had a hard time filming them. Their colony nested underground and they had several small mounds of dirt not too far away from each other.

I am really curious to what kind of species that colony belongs to and therefore need help identifying them :roll:

These links to pictures may not work, so I will edit my post later. Thank you!

https://ibb.co/PgpbkxC
https://ibb.co/6rwnGJ2
After some research I think I've got the answer :roll: The most likely species of the big, long legged ants colony I found, is Cataglyphis Nodus, a.k.a. the desert ant!
Also known as Ants_Netherlands18 on Instagram

Keeper of:
I have kept 48 species of 18 different genera of ants over the course of 3.5 years of antkeeping :)

For species ID, feel free to message me privately!

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