Help me with queen id

Help with identifying the species your ants

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texmaspro
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Help me with queen id

Post: # 78260Post texmaspro
Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:29 am

I was walking in the park and then i noticed some like clouds of mosquitoes i soom realized they were ants i managed to capture 2 queens one hase no wings and the other has but i saw her mating with a male ant so i think she is fertile i think the queens are solenopsis fugax, monomorium minimum or tetramorium .
But im not sure and i want to be 100% sure what is the species of my queen ant
colonies:
camponotus atriceps

texmaspro
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Re: Help me with queen id

Post: # 78263Post texmaspro
Sun Jun 06, 2021 11:36 am

They are 6mm and they are yellow with black ill post photo later.
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camponotus atriceps

texmaspro
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Re: Help me with queen id

Post: # 78264Post texmaspro
Sun Jun 06, 2021 12:16 pm

I caught them yesterday and they have like 6 or 8 eggs
colonies:
camponotus atriceps

Alexandros
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Re: Help me with queen id

Post: # 78266Post Alexandros
Sun Jun 06, 2021 1:52 pm

That's great and good job! But could you please sent us a link where we could find a good picture of your queen to identify her? :D For instance try uploading a good photo of her in the site Postimage, here's the link! https://postimages.org/

Here's a tip for taking pictures of queens. Behind the test tube where she currently lives in or whatever you have put her in for a founding chamber, put a paper towel or something, so that you can focus better on the queen with your camera/phone better. If she is small then put the camera up close. This is all I have. Please take the picture and We will try to identify her. :D
New to ant keeping, keeping a Messor structor colony. Also I have 2 camponotus queens and what seems, 2 tetramorium queens :D

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texmaspro
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Re: Help me with queen id

Post: # 78267Post texmaspro
Sun Jun 06, 2021 2:29 pm

I actually use imgur is it ok?
colonies:
camponotus atriceps

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Re: Help me with queen id

Post: # 78268Post texmaspro
Sun Jun 06, 2021 2:31 pm

And good tip ty
colonies:
camponotus atriceps

texmaspro
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Re: Help me with queen id

Post: # 78269Post texmaspro
Sun Jun 06, 2021 2:46 pm

https://imgur.com/a/hR2Mkt4 here is photo you can see they have a lot of eggs and i hope they hatch soon
colonies:
camponotus atriceps

texmaspro
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Re: Help me with queen id

Post: # 78283Post texmaspro
Mon Jun 07, 2021 8:13 am

ill wait till the workers arrive , but in the meantime ill try to identify the queens
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camponotus atriceps

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Re: Help me with queen id

Post: # 78323Post texmaspro
Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:06 am

one of the queens sadly died but the other one keeps laying eggs i hope she survives till the workers arrive and someone can help her
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camponotus atriceps

Alexandros
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Re: Help me with queen id

Post: # 78342Post Alexandros
Tue Jun 08, 2021 1:03 pm

texmaspro wrote:
Tue Jun 08, 2021 8:06 am
one of the queens sadly died but the other one keeps laying eggs i hope she survives till the workers arrive and someone can help her
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Also the queens do look like a solenopsis species for sure and I'm very positive i'ts a solenopsis fugax one as you said.
New to ant keeping, keeping a Messor structor colony. Also I have 2 camponotus queens and what seems, 2 tetramorium queens :D

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