Queens id plz

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Leiflen
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Queens id plz

Post: # 65466Post Leiflen
Fri Nov 08, 2019 7:18 pm

i have a few different queens id like to get IDs on plz
sorry the images are so large not sure how to make them a bit smaller.

first Id is on this queen i just caught in my garden lifting up rocks
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Leiflen
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Re: Queens id plz

Post: # 65468Post Leiflen
Fri Nov 08, 2019 7:27 pm

next ids are for some queens i tried to save from my pool. unfortunately they ended up dying. T_T

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SYUTEO
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Re: Queens id plz

Post: # 65542Post SYUTEO
Thu Nov 14, 2019 2:35 am

I guess the first species is pheidole or Temnothorax

Leiflen
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Re: Queens id plz

Post: # 65614Post Leiflen
Mon Nov 18, 2019 9:03 am

Looking them up i think your right with pheidole.

Leiflen
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Re: Queens id plz

Post: # 65743Post Leiflen
Sun Nov 24, 2019 10:46 am

Was thinking the 3rd queen might be a lasius maybe?

Good2Know15
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Re: Queens id plz

Post: # 65770Post Good2Know15
Mon Nov 25, 2019 2:55 pm

Hi there! What an awesome catch :)
The ants in the first two photos are Pheidole sp. It looks to me like a small Pheidole desertorum colony with a few major workers.
The second queen is a Lasius neoniger queen
The third long queen with a striped gaster loos like Brachymyrmex depilis to me.
The last 4th queen is either Pheidole sp or Temnothorax sp :?:

I wish these ants lived here in Europe, because they look awesome :roll:
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Leiflen
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Re: Queens id plz

Post: # 65772Post Leiflen
Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:08 pm

The last queen is a Solenopsis invicta i think. I managed to catch the second queen from the wild pheidole colony yesterday.

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