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[Alza]

Went out and got me some rather interesting species. First would be dorymyrmex insanus, and I got countless amounts of queens from founding chambers. I also got some males and queens from a colony that was about to fly, and am going to see if I can mate them in captivity. Next would be what i think is Cremetagastor, except they are bigger then I imagined... They were squirting at a test Dorymyrmex i put in their test tube, and are about 6mm...They had two territories, A very old tree, and they had a trail leading to a nest on the other side of the side walk. I dug up the one (not on the tree) and got ALOT of them. That is all.

[AntsAreUs]

Good luck on captive breeding ants!

[Chromerust]

liometopum occidentale?

[Alza]

No, they have heart gasters. And I've ran into Liometopum occidental before, they look nothing alike c:

[Foogoo]

Where was this? I saw males poking out of Dorymyrmex nests at Chino Hills last week, sounds like they did indeed fly.

[Alza]

I'll get back to you on that.

[dspdrew]

Prenolepis imparis are slightly bigger than most Crematogaster and have gasters that look a bit like them.

[Alza]

Do they make large trails, and live in trees...? That could've been them.

[dspdrew]

Not sure if they ever live in trees, but they do make large trails.

[Alza]

I got very bad pictures, if anyone thinks they can identify them by that ._.