New queen ant!!!

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Antlover41157
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New queen ant!!!

Post: # 96753Post Antlover41157
Mon Sep 26, 2022 8:47 pm

about 2 mm
9/26 6:00 pm
On asphalt road in Seattle, Washington
Ringed abdemon
Looks like lasius probably either Americanus or Neoniger.

Pic here:https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1ft3XbQFuKDSdwqhmrmmYCXr5ThZmi3O0

SYUTEO
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Re: New queen ant!!!

Post: # 96762Post SYUTEO
Tue Sep 27, 2022 7:39 am

Indeed looks like Lasius.

Antlover41157
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Re: New queen ant!!!

Post: # 96798Post Antlover41157
Wed Sep 28, 2022 5:36 pm

I just hope it's not a parasitic species

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Re: New queen ant!!!

Post: # 96800Post OiledOlives
Wed Sep 28, 2022 6:23 pm

It is claustral, definitely not an L. americanus queen though.
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Antlover41157
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Re: New queen ant!!!

Post: # 96859Post Antlover41157
Sun Oct 02, 2022 7:46 pm

What do you mean clastrual just not semi-claustral or does that rules out parasitic ants too?

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Re: New queen ant!!!

Post: # 96860Post SYUTEO
Sun Oct 02, 2022 9:17 pm

Antlover41157 wrote:
Sun Oct 02, 2022 7:46 pm
What do you mean clastrual just not semi-claustral or does that rules out parasitic ants too?
By claustral he meant fully-claustral. Queens that found their colony in the claustral cell and never come out so semi-claustral and parasitic ants are not claustral.

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Re: New queen ant!!!

Post: # 96869Post Antlover41157
Sun Oct 02, 2022 9:51 pm

ahh ok that's nice

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