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Queen ID SW Missouri

Started By DatGaster1306 , Oct 21 2020 4:53 PM

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#1 Offline DatGaster1306 - Posted October 21 2020 - 4:53 PM

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Found in SW Missouri. Lot of them running around today. Really shiny black.

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#2 Offline Manitobant - Posted October 21 2020 - 4:56 PM

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Crematogaster sp. She will not lay eggs until after hibernation.
My journals:

Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#3 Offline Spazmops - Posted October 21 2020 - 4:59 PM

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Definitely Crematogaster sp. like Manitobant said.


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1 Formica fusca group- 0 workers

1 Tetramorium immigrans colony-20 workers

1 Dorymyrmex insanus- 1 queen, used to have workers

 

1 large P. occidentalis colony- around 50 workers, plenty of brood

 

 

#4 Offline DatGaster1306 - Posted October 21 2020 - 5:17 PM

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That’s what I thought. Am I able to do a multi queen colony with them??

#5 Offline Manitobant - Posted October 22 2020 - 7:32 AM

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With larger crematogaster (like that one) no. With smaller species it is possible sometimes.
My journals:

Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#6 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted October 22 2020 - 7:34 AM

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With larger crematogaster (like that one) no. With smaller species it is possible sometim

 

That’s what I thought. Am I able to do a multi queen colony with them??

 

Without a measurement and better pictures, can't say.


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#7 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted October 22 2020 - 7:58 AM

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With larger crematogaster (like that one) no. With smaller species it is possible sometim
 

That’s what I thought. Am I able to do a multi queen colony with them??

Without a measurement and better pictures, can't say.
One of the pics is next to a ruler. It’s about 12 mm from the looks of it.

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Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#8 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted October 22 2020 - 9:08 AM

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Jeez that's a large crematogaster.


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#9 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted October 22 2020 - 10:24 AM

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With larger crematogaster (like that one) no. With smaller species it is possible sometim
 

That’s what I thought. Am I able to do a multi queen colony with them??

Without a measurement and better pictures, can't say.
One of the pics is next to a ruler. It’s about 12 mm from the looks of it.

 

That rules out C. lineolata, C. ashmeadi and C. pilosa. 


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#10 Offline NickAnter - Posted October 22 2020 - 12:06 PM

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I believe that is an imperial measuring tape. Closer to 10mm.

Edited by NickAnter, October 22 2020 - 12:06 PM.

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). 

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