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New giant queen! Help!

Started By Vataes , Jun 6 2020 8:16 AM

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#1 Offline Vataes - Posted June 6 2020 - 8:16 AM

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Hello everyone,

I'm new to this forum and i apologize if i posted in the wrong thread. I need aome help in IDing a queen cought today please.

1. Campulung, Romania
2. Date of collection: 6.06.2020
3. Habitat of collection: Top of hill
4. Length (from head to gaster): aprox 2.5 cm
5. Color, hue, pattern and texture: i cannot provide to much detail here. 90 black with red hues on thorax i think.
6. Distinguishing characteristics: Do not know what i can provide here
7. Distinguishing behavior: Lazy
8. Nest description: cought it in the dirt/field. No nest

9. Nuptial flight time and date: do not know

I only managed to take a picture with my pointy finger as reference

No picture of the area where i cought it but it was on arid ground, 2 days after a rainy day, on a top of a hill. A lot of big ants aroundz with red center body.

Any useful info.would be apreciated. Spexies, feeding habits, formicarium etc. Thanks a lot!!!

Starting Colonies: Lasius x2, Camponotus spp x2 

#2 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted June 6 2020 - 8:23 AM

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Did you post a picture in your reply? I can't see it. It'd be pretty hard to ID her without a picture. Judging by the size, I can only guess that it's some kind of Camponotus.


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#3 Offline Antennal_Scrobe - Posted June 6 2020 - 8:24 AM

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You have a Camponotus queen, either C. ligniperda or C. herculeanus. They are fully claustral and should be kept in a test tube setup and not fed until they have workers.


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 TheMicroPlanet - Posted June 6 2020 - 8:27 AM

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A general idea of your location (state or country; you don't have to be specific) would also help a lot.


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#5 Offline Vataes - Posted June 6 2020 - 8:28 AM

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Thank you for the replies. I did attach a picture. Donno why it does not show

https://ibb.co/cCgfYdn
https://ibb.co/64M863K

Hope you can see these
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Starting Colonies: Lasius x2, Camponotus spp x2 

#6 Offline NickAnter - Posted June 6 2020 - 8:29 AM

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Looks like C. vagus.


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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). 

#7 Offline Vataes - Posted June 6 2020 - 8:30 AM

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A general idea of your location (state or country; you don't have to be specific) would also help a lot.



I did provide a location. Valea Mare Privat, Romania
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#8 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted June 6 2020 - 8:30 AM

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Thank you for the replies. I did attach a picture. Donno why it does not show

https://ibb.co/cCgfYdn
https://ibb.co/64M863K

Hope you can see these

I can see them now... definitely Camponotus sp. 


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#9 Offline Vataes - Posted June 6 2020 - 8:37 AM

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I will do my best to post a better picture tomorrow as well as another 2 types of queens i cought. I think one is a carpenter ant for sure but your oppinion and approvment would be helpful. The other one is a redish one.

Starting Colonies: Lasius x2, Camponotus spp x2 

#10 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 6 2020 - 9:36 AM

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Camponotus camponotus sp, could be herculeanus, ligniperda, or maybe even vagus.


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#11 Offline TechAnt - Posted June 9 2020 - 5:54 PM

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Totally Camponotus, I am not sure what sp. though, but that it totally is C. sp Queen.
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My Ants:
(x1) Campontous semitstaceus ~20 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Camponotus vicinus ~10 workers, 1 Queen (all black variety)
(x1) Tetramorium immigrans ~100 workers, 1 Queen
(x1) Myrmercocystus mexicanus -1 Queen
(x2) Mymercocystus mimcus -1 Queen
(x1) Mymercocystus testaceus ~45 workers, 1 Queen

#12 Offline Vataes - Posted June 13 2020 - 2:13 AM

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Hello again everyone,

 

For some time the forum was down and i could not upload the pictures. 

 

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https://imgur.com/a/LOeFmWM

 

Unfortunately one of the little small ones and the winged one died. I do not know the reason :( . The other 2 had laid eggs. <3 

 

Any additional info about how to raise them would be much appreciated :) 


Starting Colonies: Lasius x2, Camponotus spp x2 

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