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Started By a5150guy , Sep 13 2019 3:57 PM

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#1 Offline a5150guy - Posted September 13 2019 - 3:57 PM

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Saw quite a few of these I am assuming girls flying in Mt Saint Helens crater last weekend on a field trip. Most things still desolate except for the ant queens flying?

 
 
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#2 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted September 13 2019 - 4:14 PM

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I'm pretty sure they're some species of Pogonomyrmex, but they could also potentially be Pheidole.


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#3 Offline Martialis - Posted September 13 2019 - 4:40 PM

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That’s a pogonomyrmex
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#4 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted September 13 2019 - 6:57 PM

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That’s a pogonomyrmex

I figured. The head shape did seem a bit off for Pheidole.


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#5 Offline NickAnter - Posted September 14 2019 - 7:05 AM

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I am not sure this is Pogonomyrmex. Consider Manica.

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). 

#6 Offline gcsnelling - Posted September 14 2019 - 8:04 AM

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Any other shots?


#7 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 14 2019 - 9:08 AM

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Looks like manica to me, the abdomen sticking out from the end of the wings is not usually seen in pogonomyrmex, which usually have their gasters scrunched up and under the wings.


#8 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 14 2019 - 9:19 AM

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pogonomyrmex


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#9 Offline Martialis - Posted September 14 2019 - 9:20 AM

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Yeah, I realized where this was after I posted that. Better pictures would be helpful.


Edited by Martialis, September 14 2019 - 9:21 AM.

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#10 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 14 2019 - 9:21 AM

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manica, with mostly straight petiole


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#11 Offline Mettcollsuss - Posted September 15 2019 - 5:08 AM

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I don't think its a Pogonomyrmex either, it's too long. M. hunteri or M. invidia is my guess.


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#12 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted September 15 2019 - 10:08 AM

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It looks exactly like M. hunteri to me.

#13 Offline jm.blanc - Posted September 19 2019 - 6:41 AM

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Could not it be Myrmica rubra? an invasive European ant present in the state of Washington according to antmaps.org


#14 Offline Mercutia - Posted September 19 2019 - 6:45 AM

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Details on size and environment caught would be helpful along with other views of the ant like from the side, back, front, etc.


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#15 Offline Canadian anter - Posted September 19 2019 - 11:32 AM

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If it doesn't have spines, then it is Manica
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#16 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 19 2019 - 2:34 PM

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not myrmica, shape and size isn't right.


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