Queen Ant ID

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Atlas03

Queen Ant ID

Post: # 11876Post Atlas03
Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:23 pm

So I was out collecting a worker to ID a species I plan to keep later on when I found queens of another species making their flight. Sadly I dont have a camera capable of taking decent pics, but heres the info:

She was found in maryland in mid september. Body is red, about 1/4 an inch long with one node. With most of the ones I found the wings fell off soon after flight. She still had a male attached to her after she landed, the male was black and about the size of a gnat, his body was maybe the size of her head.

Just glad I brought an extra container with me.

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Re: Queen Ant ID

Post: # 11880Post idahoantgirl
Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:02 pm

Atlas03 wrote:So I was out collecting a worker to ID a species I plan to keep later on when I found queens of another species making their flight. Sadly I dont have a camera capable of taking decent pics, but heres the info:

She was found in maryland in mid september. Body is red, about 1/4 an inch long with one node. With most of the ones I found the wings fell off soon after flight. She still had a male attached to her after she landed, the male was black and about the size of a gnat, his body was maybe the size of her head.

Just glad I brought an extra container with me.
Id is impossible without a photo
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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