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Sweet Home, OR 5-8-20

Started By Westroy2010 , May 8 2020 6:24 PM

Best Answer YsTheAnt , May 8 2020 - 6:39 PM

Looks to me like Camponotus modoc. Go to the full post

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#1 Offline Westroy2010 - Posted May 8 2020 - 6:24 PM

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1. Sweet Home,OR-Nuptial flight occured all over area on 5-8-20.
2. 5-8-20
3. Forested Region
4. 15mm
5. Black with small hairs on gaster

The photos may not be good enough through this scratched test tubehttps://imgur.com/a/z4cfcbM

Edited by Westroy2010, May 8 2020 - 6:32 PM.

-Just a mom helping with my son's ant keeping endeavors

#2 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted May 8 2020 - 6:39 PM Best Answer

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Looks to me like Camponotus modoc.

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#3 Offline Westroy2010 - Posted May 8 2020 - 7:00 PM

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Looks to me like Camponotus modoc.

Thank you!

-Just a mom helping with my son's ant keeping endeavors

#4 Offline PacificNorthWestern - Posted May 8 2020 - 7:13 PM

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nice find, when out looking all day and didn't find a single queen. live in southern WA btw.

#5 Offline Westroy2010 - Posted May 8 2020 - 7:46 PM

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nice find, when out looking all day and didn't find a single queen. live in southern WA btw.

I wish we could share. I made my son let some go tonight. He had about 10. How many of the same species does a person need?!

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#6 Offline BugFinder - Posted May 8 2020 - 9:01 PM

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congrats! really nice find!!

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“If an ant carries an object a hundred times its weight, you can carry burdens many times your size.” ― Matshona Dhliwayo

My Journals:

Pogonomyrmex subdentatus

Camponotus Vicinus

Camponotus sansabeanus

Tetramorium (sp)

Pogonomyrmex Californicus

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#7 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted May 9 2020 - 7:42 AM

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This is the western 'twin' of Camponotus pennsylvanicus. It's virtually identical in all aspects, and can only be told apart by a genetic analysis. This is definitely modoc, however, because they only exist in the western part of the country, while pennsylvanicus generally prefer the eastern half. We South Dakotans might have more of a problem with this, because we are where the two species' ranges overlap.

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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

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

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

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

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