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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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#61 Offline azzaaazzzz00 - Posted April 8 2022 - 4:00 AM

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When I wasn't really in the hobby yet, I was on of those people who think: red ant=FIRE ANT RUN (don't judge I was like 7 and stupid)


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Always try new things, even if its hard, hard is not impossible. We are smart and it's good to be smart but not too smart for your own good.

#62 Offline ColAnt735 - Posted April 8 2022 - 4:31 AM

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I thought that my first queen ( Prenolepis imparis) was a Tetramorium species.


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#63 Offline ExponentMars - Posted April 8 2022 - 6:21 AM

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Put a Pogonomyrmex queen inside a test tube with no seeds, sand, or heat. Thought it was a big species of solenopsis. Didn't check to see if it was semi-claustral or not lmao 


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#64 Offline Antcatcherpro3 - Posted April 8 2022 - 6:57 AM

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When I was really new to ants I used to go collect them in my yard, and a Nylanderia queen that I caught was a Lasuis queen. I didn't even know what species of lasuis it was even though I thought it was lasuis lol.


#65 Offline OiledOlives - Posted April 8 2022 - 7:01 AM

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I had Nylanderia flavipes and I thought that they were Brachymyrmex depilis for the longest time. I also thought that Vollenhovia emeryi was Ponera pennsylvanica.


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#66 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted April 8 2022 - 7:29 AM

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I thought a Strumigenys queen was a S. molesta queen


1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

1X Solenopsis molesta 10 Workers (mono)

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#67 Offline antgallery - Posted April 8 2022 - 7:54 AM

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When I caught my first queen I spent weeks trying to figure out if it was Crematogaster, Lasius or Tapinoma Sessile (It was Crematogaster)


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#68 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted April 8 2022 - 7:55 AM

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I used to get Aphaenogaster and Myrmica confused.


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

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Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#69 Offline TacticalHandleGaming - Posted April 8 2022 - 8:47 AM

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I thought my Aphaenogaster occidentalis queen was a Tetramorium immigrans queen at first. Wasn't until workers arrived that my suspicions of her not being T. immigrans were confirmed. 


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L. neoniger, P. occidentalis, C. modoc, C. novaeboracensis, C. vicinus, T. immigrans, A. occidentalis, S. molesta, P. imparis, M. kennedyi, M semirufus, F. pacifica, P. californica, M. ergatogyna.

 

Previously kept species

T. rugatulus, B. depilis.

 

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Myrmecocystus pyramicus, Myrmecocystus testaceus

Pheidole creightoni, Pheidole inquilina, Crematogaster coarctata, Crematogaster mutans

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#70 Offline PaigeX - Posted April 18 2022 - 9:29 AM

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I identified Camponotus eastwoodi as Camponotus humilior until I found a real Camponotus humilior. They are smaller in size than Camponotus eastwoodi and look practically identical.


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#71 Offline bmb1bee - Posted April 18 2022 - 1:11 PM

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The first time I saw a Prenolepis imparis worker, I misidentified it as Lasius neoniger... and I also thought it was a queen, since its gaster was pretty large compared to its body.


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#72 Offline lazyant - Posted April 18 2022 - 1:26 PM

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I thought formica where Camponotus and ended up killing a queen because of that  :facepalm:


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#73 Offline Guest_SolenopsisKeeper_* - Posted April 18 2022 - 7:57 PM

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I thought Dorymyrmex bureni were “Honeypot ants” even though they didn’t live in my area due to the translucent gaster on some. (Don’t judge was like 9 when I wanted to keep ants)

I also thought that all queens lived long due to people claiming your queen could live 30 years even though the few reports of that happening were in Lasius Niger.

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