6 queens! Caught 9/21/16

[Theantguy13]

http://imgur.com/a/aweMl
Pics 1-3 are of 1 species that I caught 3 of today
They are all roughly 1.3 cm all 3 still have wings but were caught nowhere near a colony of that type.


Pics 4 and 5 are of a solenopsis queen (I think its solenopsis and also this looks like the queen in pics 6-9 but the gaster looks different) that is 8mm


Pics 6-9 are of a solenopsis species (also just speculation) that I caught 2 of. They are both roughly 9mm

They were all caught in riverside CA the day after a rainstorm

[Batspiderfish]

Nice haul!

The queen(s) in the first two images are Pogonomyrmex rugosus. The third image is also Pogonomyrmex, but is she a different color? or is the lighting weird?

Images four through six look like the dark variant of Solenopsis xyloni.

And the remainder are Solenopsis xyloni or Solenopsis invicta.

[Theantguy13]

Thanx! The pogo pic was just lighting and the other ones are most likely xyloni because I caught one a week or so ago and they look just like it.

[Theantguy13]

Which brings my total queen count to 9!
Also there might be more later on as I am going to take my dog for a walk and I always bring tubes so look out for more queens at like 7 or 8 o'clock tonight ( my timezone is PST so I think for you it'd be like 9 or 10 o'clock )

[Theantguy13]

Are pogos fully claustral?

[Theantguy13]

5 more solenopsis queens!!! 11 queens today alone...
In running out of tubes and cotton lol