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Hey guys it's been a while but I've recently got my usb microscope or whatever and I thought I'll try to get and ID on one of my colony I have over a year and couldn't get it exactly classified yet. Sadly (or probably not for them) they live in a naturalistic habitat so I have no way getting new pictures of the queen who has been captured last year around early april in Hungary. The bright side is that I have access to (naturally) dead workers if you need more pictures, I've taken the following ones of a live one so they might be a bit blurry. (She is well and was released back to the colony)

After taking the worker images I realized I had a calibration paper to tell exact size but I forgot it so meh the worker is around 0.5 centimeters

Queen shots made with phone (old):




Worker images made with 40x zoom (said):






Worker images made with1000x zoom (said):
Back of the head

Thorax

Head

Workers are definitely tetramorium

Workers are definitely tetramorium

idahoantgirl wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:36 pm

Workers are definitely tetramorium

Well that's her queen so they are then, thanks Maybe anything more specific?

Tetramroium caespitum to be exact.

idahoantgirl wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:39 pm

Tetramroium caespitum to be exact.

Thanks I think you are right because their lifestyle meets with what I've observed and also the pictures seem to match, I've seen darker and lighter colored ones but not sure what that means, mine are rather on the light yellow side of the palette

how do you get microscope pictures

antnest8 wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:32 pm

how do you get microscope pictures

I've ordered a digital microscope from ebay, they go from as low as 10$

Thanks for the idea. i got some microscope pics from getting a microscope and putting the lens on the seeing part.