Queen Species ID help!!

[Wolfflower]

Hello~

I just recently caught my very first queen and I'm having trouble identifying her species. I'm nervous that she might not be fully claustral and that makes me pretty anxious... I've had her for about 4-5 days now and I wanna make sure she's getting everything she needs, or if I can stop worrying so much.

She was caught in IL, late April, in late afternoon, it was a nice warm day (not really sure if this info is helpful or not but there it is)

Here are some pics of her as well, and I will try harder to get better shots if need be:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=dec66efa25&attid=0.2&permmsgid=msg-a:r-8072229967159550548&th=1794551e366cbae2&view=fimg&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ9QfwUyNUrkGn1F5C86AJ6TR_2T7IuFXaghPUYJwN38ZIQn8l1MTMjOI9-tBxQy-hXwx13D-jfuviixpRMURnh-nYtPIDmku48eA0NAaXEF3XC1ZAmVENef4KI&disp=emb&realattid=1794551b2ecac8f48241

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=2&ik=dec66efa25&attid=0.1&permmsgid=msg-a:r-8072229967159550548&th=1794551e366cbae2&view=fimg&sz=s0-l75-ft&attbid=ANGjdJ9q2bpJgXmys2yIN2ug5PJE7s5pvmufQHymSFAVveHFqFKaGzG_vm5sBULiHWs97N9o76WRZTjQ_WL-Y67nl3rIzrkqXkeAfE-2WumEKOz8Z4TqKjuWYzchp0M&disp=emb&realattid=1794551c51810d55c252

I was also hoping that someone could let me know how often you need to feed semi, or non claustral ants, and what should you feed them?

Thanks AC Fam! <3

[AM1C39]

Your pictures are not working, this should help if you are having trouble: https://forum.AntsCanada.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4631 And also what length(in mm) and color is the queen?

[Wolfflower]

Hopefully this works better

She's ~10mm, dark brown, with goldish-red legs

[AM1C39]

It could be a formica queen, have a look at antmaps.org they can show you what species of formica live in your area.

[Jager89]

looks like Formica limata to me but i could be wrong the middle part of her body is larger than that images ive seen of Limata but the side angle looks exactly the same

[Wolfflower]

Thanks for the help guys

[Wolfflower]

Hello again!

unfortunately my last queen didn't make it... However! Today I had the great fortune of finding 3 queens! I'm hoping I can get some more help.

They were all caught in fairly dense woods, fairly hot day, it was a little muddy as well, all caught around the same time (2p), and are all between 11-13mm. There were a lot of carpenter ants around so I wouldn't be surprised if they were the same but I'm clueless when it comes to this...

1
https://imgur.com/8y51chZ

2
https://imgur.com/a2Dw7y0

3
https://imgur.com/uC67La3

If you need pics of them from different angles, please let me know and I'll post them as soon as possible. Thanks so much again

[SYUTEO]

It seems to be a species of Formica or Lasius, could you take a picture of the front of her head?

[Wolfflower]

Hope these help

1
https://imgur.com/T9wihC7

2
https://imgur.com/v2jDfGA

3
https://imgur.com/4k4TH8u

[SYUTEO]

The first and third look like Formica neogagates, the second one might also be Formica neogagates but it also looks like Camponotus castaneus to me.