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What ant species did you get completely wrong as a beginner?

Started By Manitobant , Apr 21 2019 12:10 PM

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#21 Offline BeginnerAntKeeper - Posted April 24 2019 - 5:11 AM

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I thought my Pheidole queens were Solenopsis queens(these were my first queens)
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#22 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted April 24 2019 - 6:42 AM

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I thought my Pheidole queens were Solenopsis queens(these were my first queens)

I actually did the same thing once when I thought Pheidole bicarinata queens were Solenopsis geminata queens.


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#23 Offline Hightlyze - Posted September 18 2019 - 5:39 PM

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I mistook odontoponera for camponotus
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#24 Offline Martialis - Posted September 18 2019 - 6:12 PM

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#25 Offline Dnail - Posted September 19 2019 - 5:01 AM

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I thought my Pheidole queens were Solenopsis queens(these were my first queens)

 

 

 

I thought my Pheidole queens were Solenopsis queens(these were my first queens)

I actually did the same thing once when I thought Pheidole bicarinata queens were Solenopsis geminata queens.

 

every beginner will have same mistake like this, including me  %) 

before i learn about ant, what i know are small black ant, small red ant, big black ant and big red ant  :lol:  


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#26 Offline Wa.Va - Posted September 19 2019 - 5:49 AM

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Once I found a Solenopsis gyne. But at that that time I did not know the exact species. Nor I did not know that we have a Solenopsis species here. (Solenopsis fugax).

I asked around which species I found and people answered that I caught a Solenopsis gyne. I was shocked and wanted to kill the queen immediately because I thought I had the very dangerous invasive Solenopsis Invicta(rifa)

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#27 Offline Mercutia - Posted September 19 2019 - 6:00 AM

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All of them. It was only through patient practice that I learnt them and I still have severe trouble with Lasius queens. 


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#28 Offline Hightlyze - Posted September 19 2019 - 6:26 AM

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I thought the odontomachus I found were trapjaw ants
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#29 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted September 19 2019 - 6:28 AM

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Odontomachus are trapjaw ants.... :lol:
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#30 Offline Hightlyze - Posted September 19 2019 - 6:29 AM

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Odontomachus are trapjaw ants.... :lol:


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#31 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted September 19 2019 - 6:34 AM

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Ah ok lol.
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#32 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted September 19 2019 - 6:47 PM

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I often though Formica were Camponotus. I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone say this yet.


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#33 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 20 2019 - 4:18 PM

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I often though Formica were Camponotus. I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone say this yet.

I thought that camponotus were formica.


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#34 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted September 23 2019 - 6:50 PM

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I often believed Myrmica were Tetramorium. Now I'm better at telling the difference. I'm not sure if this counts but I used to think Crematogaster were formicines. They spray poison so I guess I thought it was formic acid.


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Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

Prenolepis imparis

#35 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 23 2019 - 7:12 PM

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I thought... that solenopsis molesta were temnothorax.


#36 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted September 23 2019 - 7:38 PM

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I thought a large colony of Strumigenys membranifera was...something. I was still extremely new to the hobby and knew like nothing about ants. Lost a good sized Strumgenys colony that day. Oh well! I currently own three different species of Strumigenys, so I'm fine.


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#37 Offline NickAnter - Posted September 24 2019 - 6:17 AM

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I used to think that Formica aserva was a Camponotus species, and that acorn ants and thief ants were one and the same.

Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#38 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted September 24 2019 - 6:54 AM

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I once thought that Temnothorax curvispinosus alates were Monomorium phaoronis. The first ant I ever tried to identify was apparently a Cyphomyrmex rimosus worker, but I somehow identified her as a Tetramorium immigrans queen somehow? I don't know. I was a stupid kid. I also misidentified Camponotus chromaiodes as C. novaeboracensis. I misidentified both Camponotus castaneus and yellow Formica spp. as Myrmecocystus spp. many, many years ago. I thought a Brachyponera chinensis worker was Solenopsis invicta. I was looking back at some old footage once I took of Aphaenogaster lamellidens that I thought were Aphaenogaster tennesseensis, and questioned for a bit whether or not they were Neivamyrmex spp.


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#39 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted October 18 2019 - 7:28 PM

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I'm a total noob and I take people's words for the ants they are selling me, but I did at one point buy, for a good sum, an ant colony I was told was one thing and turned out to be (I'm pretty sure) Tetramorium. They look and act exactly like my other Tetramorium.... Sad thing is I actually have one colony of the type I wanted and I knew when I saw the nanitics that they looked different.... (Yeah two people looking at photos think they are more likely Tetramorium than the other type I wanted to buy.)


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Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola

Liometopum occidentale;  Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive)

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and californicus (inactive)

Tetramorium sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis

 

Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus

Spoods: Phidippus sp.

#40 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted October 19 2019 - 6:24 AM

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I thought that Camponotous didn't spray for mic acid because they weren't Formica. That's how I put them into formicarium that was way too small for them, and ended up killing the colony because they didn't have enough space

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