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Queen ID (Ontario, CA) May 8th, 2015

Started By dean_k , May 8 2015 3:04 PM

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#1 Offline dean_k - Posted May 8 2015 - 3:04 PM

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Size: 1.5cm

Color: Pitch black

Time found: 6:30PM

 

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I found her on my driveway. I was getting off my car and saw something big was moving around my shoe and caught her.

 

I think she is just an infertile alate that was kicked out of her original nest.

 

I am pretty sure that the genius Camponotus. I think the species is Pennsylvanicus.


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#2 Offline Miles - Posted May 8 2015 - 3:52 PM

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Camponotus pennsylvanicus.


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#3 Offline Crystals - Posted May 8 2015 - 7:48 PM

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I agree with Miles on the species, but don't write her off as infertile.

 

This is the time of year they fly.  In my experience with Camponotus herculeanus, I have never seen an infertile alate shed her wings.  Although I do have fertile Camponotus herculeanus queen who kept her wings, she was an oddball out of several hundred I have seen and kept over the years.


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#4 Offline dean_k - Posted May 9 2015 - 4:24 AM

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Well, if she is fertile, I guess I will simply camp at my driveway. It seems my driveway has a knock for attracting queens.

 

The alate was acting really fanatically last night as if she did not want to be there.

 

It seems she calmed down today and she is sitting still ...which reminds me of the lazy Camponotus herculeanus queen...

 

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#5 Offline AntTeen804 - Posted May 9 2015 - 6:05 AM

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When I caught my camponotus nearticus queens i found 1 before the actual flight just like you and she has larvae now so there might be a flight coming.

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#6 Offline Miles - Posted May 9 2015 - 1:11 PM

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Note that this queen would be considered a dealate because she has removed her wings.


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#7 Offline dean_k - Posted May 9 2015 - 6:11 PM

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Note that this queen would be considered a dealate because she has removed her wings.

 

Thanks.

 

And uh... I see 2 eggs... ?

 

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#8 Offline Crystals - Posted May 9 2015 - 6:39 PM

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:D

 

Try offering a small drop of sugar water on a tin foil plate, none of my Camponotus queens ever refused it.

 

Mine were pretty active until their pupae were halfway to eclosing, once they had over 10 workers they completely mellowed out.

 

But I fully suspect that you have a fertile Camponotus queen.  Congratulations!

Yeah, my driveway is a queen magnet too especially for Camponotus, Formica, and Leptothorax.


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#9 Offline dean_k - Posted May 9 2015 - 6:46 PM

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I am kinda amused.

 

It was just a lone queen that was circling around my shoe. My Lasius I caught actually flew into my cheek.

 

I shall name my driveway the Antway.


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