3/8 inch (9.5mm) Ant In VA 9/29
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3/8 inch (9.5mm) Ant In VA 9/29
Looks Like a worker to me, and it is 9.5mm long, and found 9/29 in VA In my backyard (Basically a field but there i like 7 trees.)
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Looks like a queen, I don't know what she is, but she looks like Strumgenys or Pogonomerex. Pogos aren't native to many parts of Virginia, if I recall.
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Re: 3/8 inch (9.5mm) Ant In VA 9/29
It doesnt look like either of those genus queen do, or the workers really,
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Really? hm. She definitely looks like a semi-claustral queen. Maybe Myrmica? Here's a picture of a Myrmica queen.AntLove5Ever wrote:It doesnt look like either of those genus queen do, or the workers really,
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Re: 3/8 inch (9.5mm) Ant In VA 9/29
Definitely not myrmica, it isn't smalll or dark enough. Maybe lasius flavus? worker?
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Re: 3/8 inch (9.5mm) Ant In VA 9/29
Or lasius interjectus?AntLove5Ever wrote:Definitely not myrmica, it isn't smalll or dark enough. Maybe lasius flavus? worker?
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Looked it up. She appears to be Temnothorax americanus, the acorn ant. She's a slave-making, social parasite queen, so if you gave her some brood, they'd most likely become her workers.
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Re: 3/8 inch (9.5mm) Ant In VA 9/29
No, she is WAY too big to be temnothorax
temno is 4mm max, she is over twice that size.
temno is 4mm max, she is over twice that size.
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