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Zeeland Michigan Sep 22 2019


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#1 Offline cfreidsma - Posted September 22 2019 - 1:50 PM

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1. Location of collection (ie: park/area, city/town, state/province, country): West Michigan, under a pot at my house
2. Date of collection (more important for ID's of queens): 20th
3. Habitat of collection (ie: desert scrub, oak forest, riparian, etc.): Suburban area
4. Length (to the nearest millimeter or 1/16th of an inch.): 7mm
5. Coloration, hue, pattern and texture (ie: dark redish-orange head, velvet-like gaster, translucent, hairy/bald, shiny/dull, etc.): See images
6. Distinguishing characteristics (ie: one petiole node/two petiole nodes, length and orientation of any spines or bumps on the thorax or waist, head shape, eye size, shape of mandibles, number of antennal segments, etc.): Large-is head
7. Anything else distinctive (ie: odor, behavior, characteristics relative to others in the colony, etc.): na
8. Nest description: na
9. Nuptial flight time and date: na

 

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#2 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 22 2019 - 1:54 PM

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camponotus is all I can tell you



#3 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted September 22 2019 - 2:22 PM

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Looks like a Lasius parasite to me.


Currently keeping:

 

Tetramorium immigrans, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Myrmica punctiventris, Formica subsericea

Formica pallidefulva, Aphaeogaster cf. rudis

Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Camponotus nearcticus

Crematogaster cerasi

Temnothorax ambiguus

Prenolepis imparis


#4 Offline Aaron567 - Posted September 22 2019 - 3:16 PM

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Lasius aphidicola or something similar.


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#5 Offline cfreidsma - Posted September 22 2019 - 3:18 PM

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Looks like a Lasius parasite to me.

What I figured. I've found more of them than anything else this year. 






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