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Id request Lasius I think very tiny ants.

Started By KitsAntVa , Jul 27 2020 4:48 PM

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#1 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted July 27 2020 - 4:48 PM

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Need help with id’ing this queen with workers. Caught in my backyard they are part of a big colony I’m planning to collect more workers and eggs tomorrow. And they are in a 10 mm wide test tube if that helps any so they are about 2,3 or 4 mm long.

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#2 Online ANTdrew - Posted July 27 2020 - 4:56 PM

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Looks like Tapinoma sessile.

"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#3 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted July 27 2020 - 5:09 PM

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Thank you drew would you think a queen from a different colony would work together with that colony. Also Tapinoma sessile are that small?

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#4 Online ANTdrew - Posted July 27 2020 - 5:11 PM

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They are highly polygynous and some of the smallest ants around.

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#5 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted July 27 2020 - 5:13 PM

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Oh ok I really didn’t know that too bad they are not lasius I would’ve been suuuuuper happy, because I would trade any of my ants except my subbarbatus colony for lasius.

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#6 Offline AntsBrooklyn - Posted July 27 2020 - 10:55 PM

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Unfortunately, she passed away overnight.

Thank you all for your help!

I will be starting my ant hobby with Tetramorium and Pheilode starter colonies, from a friend.

#7 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 28 2020 - 2:55 AM

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Unfortunately, she passed away overnight.

Thank you all for your help!

I will be starting my ant hobby with Tetramorium and Pheilode starter colonies, from a friend.

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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!