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I went out on Sunday after watching the new AntsCanada Video on the weekend, gave me the idea to go try a new spot, Me and my Girlfriend set out with 8 test tubes, we managed to fill each one. i'm pretty sure they are all Formica but to be sure the are all queens and if you are able to tell if they are Formica or not, we brought them home, put them in test tube setups took picture of each and put them away and haven't bothered them. This is my first time catching queens and its been hard to not go and look at them to check on the progress.

We are from central Alberta Canada and they were caught on August 6th.

Also let me know if the quality came through and they are clear enough

as for my guess i think a couple are Formica Podzolica. Also i don't think any of these would be social parasites but tell em what you think. i am most interested in finding out about queen 3 and 5

Queen 1


Queen 2


Queen 3 (the only winged one we found)


Queen 4


Queen 5 (the only one with a red-ish color to her, might be a thatching?)


Queen 6


Queen 7


Queen 8

5th one seems a worker to me.

Might just be the angle. I'll try and get some better pictures off her tomorrow or on the weekend

Scynthius wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:49 am

Might just be the angle. I'll try and get some better pictures off her tomorrow or on the weekend

yeah that'd definitely help.

no 5 is definetly a queen. all of them are queens.

No 5 may be a social parasite. I just found a couple of them yesterday. Batspiderfish helped me identify them. He pointed me to a great post of his here that talks about them:

http://www.formiculture.com/topic/3252-much-ado-about-the-founding-of-lasius-temporary-social-parasites/

5th one is a social parcite queen.

5th one is a social parcite queen.

queen 5 close ups and one with her and her new pupae which she appears to now be taking care of