Need help identifying
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Need help identifying
Hello, so I had a trip for work last week to pick up on of my unit's Aircraft. One of the civilian contractors left the window open on the aircraft and we found these ladies chilling all over the flight deck when we got home. I collected them and suspect they are solenopsis invicta.
Came from Abilene, Texas on March 27th
They're each around 9mm.
For the most part they have all laid a few eggs, but kind of scattered all over the test tube.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LjNfFiKZOrW1cQYK6hU5Gxy3i32kaJi7
https://drive.google.com/open?id=****_dX2j
Came from Abilene, Texas on March 27th
They're each around 9mm.
For the most part they have all laid a few eggs, but kind of scattered all over the test tube.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LjNfFiKZOrW1cQYK6hU5Gxy3i32kaJi7
https://drive.google.com/open?id=****_dX2j
Last edited by Comnav24 on Mon Apr 02, 2018 5:21 pm, edited 5 times in total.
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Can't see the image.
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Camponotus Laevigatus
Formica sp.
Lasius Flavus
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Polyrhacis Dives
Camponotus friedae
Re: Need help identifying
My apologies fixing it right now. Standby
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fixed it as a link, may have to find a different file host for images
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Photos up
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Hmmm....well these stowaways aren't doing too well anyway. We had a coldsnap and my roommate left a window open so the loft(where I keep my reptiles and have them stored in a drawer) got really cold, and 3 of them died...been trying to leave them alone, but still dont have a solid ID yet.
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looks like solenopsis but, i can't tell the species.
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That's kinda what I figured...I'm starting to think it may have been better to let nature take its course with these ladies :/ two days after we got home and discovered them in various spots on the flight deck we had a cold snap. Over all I'm starting to think even in captivity they won't do well long term :/.
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If they survive they will do entirely too well. Their colonies are amazingly fast growing and easy to get out of control. The queens pretty much lay around the clock.
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Checked on them for the first time in a week last night. Only three are still alive at this point and since the cold snap and mass infanticide, no new eggs.
I know they are explosive but I was thinking they'd do fine during the summer, but come winter start having trouble. It's honestly part of the reason we haven't gotten them around here. A couple of plant nurseries had a few colonies in them, but come winter they all died off.
Still I'll continue to check on them from time to time and make sure they have what they need.
I know they are explosive but I was thinking they'd do fine during the summer, but come winter start having trouble. It's honestly part of the reason we haven't gotten them around here. A couple of plant nurseries had a few colonies in them, but come winter they all died off.
Still I'll continue to check on them from time to time and make sure they have what they need.
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