Queens collecting food along with workers in a big colony. ID help

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sherwinx17

Queens collecting food along with workers in a big colony. ID help

Post: # 28474Post sherwinx17
Tue Aug 08, 2017 4:17 pm

Hi I live in Iran/khorasan razavi/sabzevar and today 8/9/2017, I went queen hunting in a park near are house (it's a big park) .Well I was walking along went over a trail of ants collecting seeds from a weed and then I saw a ant that didn't fit in, so I scooped her in a test tube and WOW it was a queen collecting food for a colony with thousands of workers. After a few minutes I saw a another one collecting seed and in total I found three queens . I followed the third queen to make sure it's from that colony and it went all the way in the ant line to the colony entrance. The queens are fully black (12 mm) and the workers are red in the middle and black at the head and bottom they have majors and normal workers. The normal workers are about (6 mm) but the special thing the have in both types is the head and bottom is both round and about the same size. I hope you guys can help me out with at lest the genus.


https://www.irista.com/#/photos/photo/2f780301-599c-443d-a1cd-3b60c5c03660/0ee9714c-6c88-44c2-82b2-0748fb7e69dc?s=s
https://www.irista.com/#/photos/photo/2f780301-599c-443d-a1cd-3b60c5c03660/91cafa31-9bb9-405f-a941-f4eef3d3593b?s=s
https://www.irista.com/#/photos/photo/2f780301-599c-443d-a1cd-3b60c5c03660/5e80f9ea-7e00-4eb8-b7a4-e252af1cb18d?s=s
https://www.irista.com/#/photos/photo/2f780301-599c-443d-a1cd-3b60c5c03660/4fa89dc8-41e8-4bd2-a618-c6215a8a7f82?s=s

Thanks

richardmlldk

Queens collecting food along with workers in a big colony ID help

Post: # 28493Post richardmlldk
Tue Aug 08, 2017 7:41 pm

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sherwinx17

Re: Queens collecting food along with workers in a big colony. ID help

Post: # 28511Post sherwinx17
Wed Aug 09, 2017 4:12 am

After some research I'm pretty sure it's from the Messor genus.

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Re: Queens collecting food along with workers in a big colony. ID help

Post: # 28564Post Proverbs66
Wed Aug 09, 2017 7:49 pm

sherwinx17 wrote:
Tue Aug 08, 2017 4:17 pm
Hi I live in Iran/khorasan razavi/sabzevar and today 8/9/2017, I went queen hunting in a park near are house (it's a big park) .Well I was walking along went over a trail of ants collecting seeds from a weed and then I saw a ant that didn't fit in, so I scooped her in a test tube and WOW it was a queen collecting food for a colony with thousands of workers. After a few minutes I saw a another one collecting seed and in total I found three queens . I followed the third queen to make sure it's from that colony and it went all the way in the ant line to the colony entrance. The queens are fully black (12 mm) and the workers are red in the middle and black at the head and bottom they have majors and normal workers. The normal workers are about (6 mm) but the special thing the have in both types is the head and bottom is both round and about the same size. I hope you guys can help me out with at lest the genus.


https://www.irista.com/#/photos/photo/2f780301-599c-443d-a1cd-3b60c5c03660/0ee9714c-6c88-44c2-82b2-0748fb7e69dc?s=s
https://www.irista.com/#/photos/photo/2f780301-599c-443d-a1cd-3b60c5c03660/91cafa31-9bb9-405f-a941-f4eef3d3593b?s=s
https://www.irista.com/#/photos/photo/2f780301-599c-443d-a1cd-3b60c5c03660/5e80f9ea-7e00-4eb8-b7a4-e252af1cb18d?s=s
https://www.irista.com/#/photos/photo/2f780301-599c-443d-a1cd-3b60c5c03660/4fa89dc8-41e8-4bd2-a618-c6215a8a7f82?s=s

Thanks
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