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I CAUGHT MY FIRST QUEEN!
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Posted April 5 2020 - 8:29 AM
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Posted April 5 2020 - 8:35 AM
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I saw alates crawling around. Might be another flight today.
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Posted April 5 2020 - 9:28 AM
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That’s a Prenolepis 100%
Congrats! It won’t be your last queen this season.
Looks like Prenolepis to me.
While it most likely is Prenolepis based on locale and date, there's no way to tell with these pictures. It could be Lasius as well.
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Posted April 5 2020 - 9:30 AM
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there's even a possibility she's dolichoderine.
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Posted April 5 2020 - 11:02 AM
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She's definitely Prenolepis. I found queen alates that looked exactly like her in a P. Imparis nest nearby, and I know for a fact what P. Imparis looks like.
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Posted April 5 2020 - 12:56 PM
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k, she looks more brown in the photo and seems a little small.
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Posted April 5 2020 - 1:46 PM
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The photo was taken in the dark, and I edited it slightly to make her easier to see. I guess I didn't do a good job at that 
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Posted April 5 2020 - 1:50 PM
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Posted April 14 2020 - 2:10 PM
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congrats you caught one of the hardest sp to keep. Mine are going into year 2 and just laid a [censored] ton of eggs. (don't check on her for a month and you might have workers or a dead queen) prenolepis are extremly slow growing and hate being disturbed
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Posted April 14 2020 - 2:24 PM
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congrats you caught one of the hardest sp to keep. Mine are going into year 2 and just laid a [censored] ton of eggs. (don't check on her for a month and you might have workers or a dead queen) prenolepis are extremly slow growing and hate being disturbed
Prenolepis are definitely NOT one of the hardest species to keep. I'd leave that title to Discothryea, all Dorylinae and some Attines.
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