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Sweet Home, OR 5-10-2020

Started By Westroy2010 , May 10 2020 10:59 AM

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#1 Offline Westroy2010 - Posted May 10 2020 - 10:59 AM

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1. Found near Sweet Home, OR
2. Collected Queen and workers 5-2-20
3. Edge of woods
4. Did not measure before putting in formicarium. Definitely smaller than the Modoc Queen recently found.
5. Black
8. Found in disturbed soil (during tractor work)

I know these are not at all ideal pictures but you all have surprised me before with what you can identify. Thank you.
https://imgur.com/a/tS7e31y

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

#2 Offline AnthonyP163 - Posted May 10 2020 - 11:28 AM

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Formica argentea or subaenescens or a closely related species.

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#3 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted May 10 2020 - 1:15 PM

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Formica argentea or subaenescens or a closely related species.

Could just as likely be subsericea. It could be any one of the three.

"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

#4 Offline NickAnter - Posted May 10 2020 - 1:17 PM

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We don't have subsericea on the west coast.

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).

#5 Offline PacificNorthWestern - Posted May 10 2020 - 1:41 PM

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Formica argentea or subaenescens or a closely related species.

Looks like Argentea to me.

#6 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted May 10 2020 - 2:05 PM

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We don't have subsericea on the west coast.

Oh, ok.

"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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