I found ant colonies and I need help to identify them

Help with identifying the species your ants

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Re: I found ant colonies and I need help to identify them

Post: # 37233Post AntsDakota
Sat Jun 09, 2018 7:48 pm

AntsGreece wrote:
Sat May 19, 2018 2:59 pm
The queens are Pheidole sp.
If you have read up on Pheidole, you will know that they have impressive super majors, large workers with large heads used for colony defense, lifting heavy objects, and slicing food with their muscle packed heads. Camponotus also have super majors.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25

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Re: I found ant colonies and I need help to identify them

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Sun Jun 10, 2018 5:21 am

AntsDakota wrote:
Sat Jun 09, 2018 7:48 pm
AntsGreece wrote:
Sat May 19, 2018 2:59 pm
The queens are Pheidole sp.
If you have read up on Pheidole, you will know that they have impressive super majors, large workers with large heads used for colony defense, lifting heavy objects, and slicing food with their muscle packed heads. Camponotus also have super majors.
Thanks for the answer
The queens are pheidole because I found them near a huge nest of this ants and I saw workers and big headed majors around.
the queens I found and the workers-majors looks like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQxXhpUooKU

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Re: I found ant colonies and I need help to identify them

Post: # 37285Post AntsDakota
Sun Jun 10, 2018 1:53 pm

AntsGreece wrote:
Sun Jun 10, 2018 5:21 am
AntsDakota wrote:
Sat Jun 09, 2018 7:48 pm
AntsGreece wrote:
Sat May 19, 2018 2:59 pm
The queens are Pheidole sp.
If you have read up on Pheidole, you will know that they have impressive super majors, large workers with large heads used for colony defense, lifting heavy objects, and slicing food with their muscle packed heads. Camponotus also have super majors.
Thanks for the answer
The queens are pheidole because I found them near a huge nest of this ants and I saw workers and big headed majors around.
the queens I found and the workers-majors looks like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQxXhpUooKU
Just because you find queens near an ant nest doesn't mean they're the same species. For example, a Camponotus queen could land near the nest of Lasius. That doesn't mean that it is Lasius, it just means it landed near Lasius.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25

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Re: I found ant colonies and I need help to identify them

Post: # 37305Post AntsGreece
Sun Jun 10, 2018 5:08 pm

AntsDakota wrote:
Sun Jun 10, 2018 1:53 pm
AntsGreece wrote:
Sun Jun 10, 2018 5:21 am
AntsDakota wrote:
Sat Jun 09, 2018 7:48 pm

Just because you find queens near an ant nest doesn't mean they're the same species. For example, a Camponotus queen could land near the nest of Lasius. That doesn't mean that it is Lasius, it just means it landed near Lasius.
The queens I have are the same with the queens in the video and the workers are the same.
http://s1253.photobucket.com/user/angelosvas/media/IMG_20180515_180218_zps6ntkc4wi.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0&hotlinkfix=1528668435470

Thanks for the answer

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