Please help identify these ants

Help with identifying the species your ants

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RyuujinOsama
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Please help identify these ants

Post: # 94230Post RyuujinOsama
Mon Jul 04, 2022 2:50 pm

Hi everyone very new to Ant keeping. Any help you can give to identify these ants so that I can give proper care would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. The location for all of these is North San Diego county, California.

First: I caught this queen at the beginning of June she is approx. 1/4in. or 6.35mm. in length https://imgur.com/a/bE47he1

Second: I found these queens living inside a piece of tree bark in my garden. They are approx. 1/8in. or 3.17mm. One queen is smaller than an Argentine ant worker. They have two workers currently and those workers appear to be a somewhat orange color and are less than a millimeter in length. https://imgur.com/a/ayTg19j

Third: Truthfully I'm not even sure if this is a queen. She appears to have wing scars but I'm not experienced enough to be certain. I found this Ant in my cousins backyard on June 30. He has lived there many years and I've only ever seen Argentine ants in his neighborhood. After finding her I looked around and was unable to find any other red ants. She appears to be what i would call a "red fire ant" queen and is definitely larger than the workers I see for that species when I go for hikes on my local trail systems. Please let me know what you think. She is approx. 3/8in. or 9.53mm Also she pulls on the cotton quite a bit in her test tube if it is a queen does this mean that she is semi-claustral? https://imgur.com/a/5JtOuI2

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Re: Please help identify these ants

Post: # 94235Post SolenopsisKeeper
Mon Jul 04, 2022 3:49 pm

RyuujinOsama wrote:
Mon Jul 04, 2022 2:50 pm
Hi everyone very new to Ant keeping. Any help you can give to identify these ants so that I can give proper care would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. The location for all of these is North San Diego county, California.

First: I caught this queen at the beginning of June she is approx. 1/4in. or 6.35mm. in length https://imgur.com/a/bE47he1

Second: I found these queens living inside a piece of tree bark in my garden. They are approx. 1/8in. or 3.17mm. One queen is smaller than an Argentine ant worker. They have two workers currently and those workers appear to be a somewhat orange color and are less than a millimeter in length. https://imgur.com/a/ayTg19j

Third: Truthfully I'm not even sure if this is a queen. She appears to have wing scars but I'm not experienced enough to be certain. I found this Ant in my cousins backyard on June 30. He has lived there many years and I've only ever seen Argentine ants in his neighborhood. After finding her I looked around and was unable to find any other red ants. She appears to be what i would call a "red fire ant" queen and is definitely larger than the workers I see for that species when I go for hikes on my local trail systems. Please let me know what you think. She is approx. 3/8in. or 9.53mm Also she pulls on the cotton quite a bit in her test tube if it is a queen does this mean that she is semi-claustral? https://imgur.com/a/5JtOuI2
1. Full claustral Solenopsis xyloni

2. Looks like a Monorium spp.

3. Pogomyrmex , semi-claustral and will eat insects and seeds. Also know as harvester ants.

Good luck! ;)
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RyuujinOsama
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Re: Please help identify these ants

Post: # 94237Post RyuujinOsama
Mon Jul 04, 2022 4:46 pm

Thank you solenopsiskeeper

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