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[Devi]

IDK if this is even a queen. It is super small, and it's sooooo hard to get good pictures:

 

1. Arvada, CO
2. Aug. 28
3. Under an underpass, in very soft dirt.  I dug up a founding chamber.
4. Length (from head to gaster): 4-5 mm
5. Color, hue, pattern and texture:  Looks kind of like solenopis molesta (its not it) because of the coloring.  Coloring segments gaster, brown and orangish. 
6. Distinguishing characteristics: The thorax doesn't even look that big, which make me wonder if it's even a queen
7. Distinguishing behavior:  N/A
8. Nest description: Your average founding chamber

9. Nuptial flight time and date: N/A

 

I tried to get good pics for a half hour, this was the best I could come up with, sorry.

 

 

[Antkid12]

Not a queen, this is a lasius worker.

[Devi]

Not a queen, this is a lasius worker.

I was afraid it would come to this, lol.  The reason I kept her is because she was the one ant I found in the founding chamber, I'm surprised there weren't more.  

Not surprised.  Thanks!

[Spazmops]

It’s likely that was actually a nest entrance that wasn’t getting used.