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Started By chua2231 , Jun 4 2020 5:35 PM
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#1 Offline chua2231 - Posted June 4 2020 - 5:35 PM

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I found this little ant outside my house under the car port, after it raid pretty bad.

from south lousiana. collected 6/4/20 around 7:20ish pm cst

is this a queen? cause she seems kinda small. but I know it was from a fire ant bed.

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#2 Offline Antkid12 - Posted June 4 2020 - 5:35 PM

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Definitely a queen, hard to tell but probably Pheidole species or Solenopsis.


Edited by Antkid12, June 4 2020 - 5:37 PM.

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Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#3 Offline chua2231 - Posted June 4 2020 - 5:38 PM

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are fire ants queens normally small? I'm pretty new to ant keeping. 


Edited by chua2231, June 4 2020 - 5:39 PM.

#4 Offline Antkid12 - Posted June 4 2020 - 5:39 PM

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How small is it in millimeters?


Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#5 Offline chua2231 - Posted June 4 2020 - 5:49 PM

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i did my best i don't have a ruler. but i posted a pic with a tape measure


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#6 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 4 2020 - 5:52 PM

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Solenopsis invicta. Queen


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#7 Offline Antkid12 - Posted June 4 2020 - 5:54 PM

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That looks around normal for a Solenopsis invicta queen.


Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#8 Offline MinigunL5 - Posted June 4 2020 - 6:06 PM

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Kill it, they're invasive


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#9 Offline chua2231 - Posted June 4 2020 - 6:10 PM

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if it ever came down to it i have a can of gas, don't you worry.


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#10 Offline Zeiss - Posted June 4 2020 - 6:14 PM

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You guys can not come up with a solid ID with pictures like this.  Please take better images.  If you're using a phone, they focus about 3-4 inches away from the subject, do not zoom in too much.


#11 Offline MinigunL5 - Posted June 4 2020 - 6:15 PM

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You guys can not come up with a solid ID with pictures like this.  Please take better images.  If you're using a phone, they focus about 3-4 inches away from the subject, do not zoom in too much.

Why not zoom in? 


#12 Offline Zeiss - Posted June 4 2020 - 6:18 PM

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Why not zoom in? 

Zooming in too much will make the image too grainy on most phone cameras.


#13 Offline MinigunL5 - Posted June 4 2020 - 6:21 PM

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Why not zoom in? 

Zooming in too much will make the image too grainy on most phone cameras.

 

Yeah but if you don't then the ants will be too small in the picture, right? And if you crop it it will have the same graininess

Am I wrong?


#14 Offline Zeiss - Posted June 4 2020 - 6:44 PM

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Yeah but if you don't then the ants will be too small in the picture, right? And if you crop it it will have the same graininess

Am I wrong?

I never said not to zoom in, I said don't zoom in too much.


#15 Offline chua2231 - Posted June 4 2020 - 6:57 PM

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ill try getting a better picture one second


#16 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted June 4 2020 - 6:57 PM

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He needs a macro lens, not a potential argument about zooming in.

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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

#17 Offline chua2231 - Posted June 4 2020 - 7:03 PM

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i added three more photos, 


#18 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted June 4 2020 - 7:08 PM

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i added three more photos,

Definitely S. invicta.

"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

#19 Offline Zeiss - Posted June 4 2020 - 7:13 PM

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He needs a macro lens, not a potential argument about zooming in.

I was not trying to argue, just offered advice on how to take a decent image with just a phone camera and no macro lens.

 

i added three more photos, 

Thank you, clearer images always make an ID a lot easier to agree on.  This is Solenopsis invicta.


#20 Offline chua2231 - Posted June 4 2020 - 7:16 PM

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thank you guys!


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