Help ID PLEASE Caught my FIRST Queen!

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ThaRealMarshmallow
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Help ID PLEASE Caught my FIRST Queen!

Post: # 70108Post ThaRealMarshmallow
Tue May 19, 2020 5:07 pm

Hey everyone! So, I’m VERY new to ant keeping. However, I am super excited to get started and have been doing SO much research. As the subject states, I caught my very FIRST Queen, assuming it is in fact a Queen, today, 19 May 2020. So, I think she is a Solenopsis invicta. I live in East-Central Louisiana. Here are a few pictures, I’ll try and get some more if needed. If she is in fact a recently bred RIFA, how long should I expect to have before she should be ready to move her colony into an actual Formicarium? Everything I’ve read says they multiply at an astonishing rate.

Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-5xSBov_51kGAI3sg3ApBluLfNwCepyu

Hawkeye
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Re: Help ID PLEASE Caught my FIRST Queen!

Post: # 70791Post Hawkeye
Tue Jun 02, 2020 9:11 am

Unfortunately your pictures are not zoomed in enough to help you identify the queen in question. You can upload pictures to imgur.com and then copy paste the BBCode into the text of your next post.

As for moving them into a formicarium, I'd wait until she has at least 30 workers

QJH2023
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Re: Help ID PLEASE Caught my FIRST Queen!

Post: # 70846Post QJH2023
Tue Jun 02, 2020 6:47 pm

solinopsis species unknown because of bad picture try what Hawkeye said
keeper of: 41xCamponotus novaeboracensis, Crematogaster spp. and unidentified species and tapinoma sessile

QJH2023
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Re: Help ID PLEASE Caught my FIRST Queen!

Post: # 70847Post QJH2023
Tue Jun 02, 2020 6:48 pm

or fire ant same thing
keeper of: 41xCamponotus novaeboracensis, Crematogaster spp. and unidentified species and tapinoma sessile

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