Hello all on the ants forums I have an ant queen ID request she is a fairly large ant queen and quite the specimen, I'm very excited to find out what kind of queen she is so I can best take care of her.
thanks in advance, I'm still fairly new at ant keeping and so any and all help is welcome.
1. Cottonwood, AZ,
2. 7/16/2020
3. High desert, brush rural outskirts of city
4. 13-14 mm
5. semi glossy, Partially Translusent yellow brown. gastor and thorax and head? head is dark brown starting at the mandibles starting from the eyes back more yellow, sparse hairs not focused at one point
6. head kinda Apple shaped, long slender legs that fold in against the thorax long antanae distinct throax shape. carpenter ant of some kind?
7. larvae spin cocoons, queen produced eggs quickly, polymorphic if its the ants i keep finding all near my home, majors with larger darker heads and more yellow workers., fast moving workers very inquisitive
8. I'm not sure but she is very similar color and has charactaristics of ants i sometimes find just outside in piles of leaves under the bushes near my home, I unearthed a colony by accident moving my trash can and found cocoon spinning ants very similar color. see pictures couldn't find the colony in action but under the leaves in the bushes
9. found under garage door lip without wings did not witness the flight
, Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi! 
