Help identifying my ant queen

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Deoix9877
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Help identifying my ant queen

Post: # 78365Post Deoix9877
Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:07 am

My sister got me a queen ant for my birthday, but she didn't ask the seller what species it was. I know the pictures aren't that high quality, but it's the best I got. I just want to know if they have any special feeding preferences that I should keep in mind or if I can just go with the regular sugary/protein food sources. I have been told in a different post they may be from the genus messor, but I wanna make sure

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Good2Know15
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Re: Help identifying my ant queen

Post: # 78370Post Good2Know15
Wed Jun 09, 2021 4:14 pm

Deoix9877 wrote:
Wed Jun 09, 2021 11:07 am
My sister got me a queen ant for my birthday, but she didn't ask the seller what species it was. I know the pictures aren't that high quality, but it's the best I got. I just want to know if they have any special feeding preferences that I should keep in mind or if I can just go with the regular sugary/protein food sources. I have been told in a different post they may be from the genus messor, but I wanna make sure

https://ibb.co/fq4XTYj

https://ibb.co/Hh4mFD2
This is indeed Messor.
If you are in South Europe; it is Messor structor to be exact. They are flying around May and June and then also a few times around September.

If you are from West Europe (Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, part of Russia..) however, this is Messor cf. muticus. And they fly at around the same time as Messor structor mentioned here above.
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!

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