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ID request: inch ant drone or queen?

Started By justanotheramy , Apr 26 2021 10:05 PM

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#21 Offline justanotheramy - Posted April 10 2022 - 9:34 PM

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My 9 year old found another one — in the house.
Thoughts?


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#22 Offline ZTYguy - Posted April 10 2022 - 10:09 PM

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Give your child an award and keep it. Also possibly M. pyriformis


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#23 Offline Leptomyrmx - Posted April 10 2022 - 10:27 PM

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My 9 year old found another one — in the house.
Thoughts?

 

Give your child an award and keep it. Also possibly M. pyriformis

 

I second this.


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My Ants:

Colonies: Camponotus humilior 1w, Opisthopsis rufithorax 11w, Aphaenogaster longiceps ~5w, Pheidole sp. ~235w ~15m, Iridomyrmex sp. 2q 1w, Brachyponera lutea 6w, Crematogaster sp. ~20w, Podomyrma sp. 1w

Queens: Polyrhachis cf. robinsoni, Polyrhachis (Campomyrma) sp. (likely infertile)

Previously Kept: Colobopsis gasseri, Technomyrmex sp., Rhytidoponera victorae, Nylanderia cf. rosae, Myrmecia brevinoda/forficata, Polyrhachis australis, Solenopsis/Monomorium

Key: Q = Queen, W = Worker, M = Major

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#24 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted April 10 2022 - 10:29 PM

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My 9 year old found another one — in the house.
Thoughts?

Very nice! If you want to raise her then go for it. 


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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#25 Offline OiledOlives - Posted April 11 2022 - 5:34 AM

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Give your child an award and keep it. Also possibly M. pyriformis

Any idea how to tell? I looked at the antwiki key to Myrmecia (here) and it seems that, to differentiate from other species in the genera, the anterior petiole is short and the scape hairs usually are not erect, but in these pictures, the petiole is obscured (by wings in first picture, legs in second picture) and the picture is not good enough to see scape hairs.


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#26 Offline Mettcollsuss - Posted April 11 2022 - 5:50 AM

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Any idea how to tell? I looked at the antwiki key to Myrmecia (here) and it seems that, to differentiate from other species in the genera, the anterior petiole is short and the scape hairs usually are not erect, but in these pictures, the petiole is obscured (by wings in first picture, legs in second picture) and the picture is not good enough to see scape hairs.

I'm still learning to ID Myrmecia, but among the common gulosa-group Myrmecia I think pyriformis can be told apart by combination of having mandibles that aren't straight and yellowish gaster pubescence.


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#27 Offline OiledOlives - Posted April 11 2022 - 6:08 AM

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Any idea how to tell? I looked at the antwiki key to Myrmecia (here) and it seems that, to differentiate from other species in the genera, the anterior petiole is short and the scape hairs usually are not erect, but in these pictures, the petiole is obscured (by wings in first picture, legs in second picture) and the picture is not good enough to see scape hairs.

I'm still learning to ID Myrmecia, but among the common gulosa-group Myrmecia I think pyriformis can be told apart by combination of having mandibles that aren't straight and yellowish gaster pubescence.

 

Thanks Mett!


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#28 Offline justanotheramy - Posted May 2 2022 - 10:44 PM

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She's a layer!

(apologies for image quality; she didn't appreciate the photo op)


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#29 Offline justanotheramy - Posted August 9 2022 - 9:06 PM

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Queen 2 is doing very well, and her babies are fat and wiggly.

 

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#30 Offline ZTYguy - Posted August 9 2022 - 10:04 PM

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So cute!!! Hopefully you’ll get a nice big colony out of her!


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#31 Offline justanotheramy - Posted August 9 2022 - 10:17 PM

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She is going to need a habitat upgrade soon, I think, to give the kids somewhere to forage.

Happy to take advice.


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#32 Offline ZTYguy - Posted August 9 2022 - 10:24 PM

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I’d do a simple tubs n tubes setup but a AUS Ants ytong founding nest would actually be perfect for her. You can actually look at the best care video on Jordan Dean’s YT channel to see his Myrmecia colonies. 


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#33 Offline justanotheramy - Posted August 10 2022 - 8:01 PM

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I was also looking at the Bullant Den.
Has anyone here tried it?


#34 Offline Leptomyrmx - Posted August 10 2022 - 11:11 PM

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I was also looking at the Bullant Den.
Has anyone here tried it?

 

Haven't tried it myself but I've heard it's great.


My Ants:

Colonies: Camponotus humilior 1w, Opisthopsis rufithorax 11w, Aphaenogaster longiceps ~5w, Pheidole sp. ~235w ~15m, Iridomyrmex sp. 2q 1w, Brachyponera lutea 6w, Crematogaster sp. ~20w, Podomyrma sp. 1w

Queens: Polyrhachis cf. robinsoni, Polyrhachis (Campomyrma) sp. (likely infertile)

Previously Kept: Colobopsis gasseri, Technomyrmex sp., Rhytidoponera victorae, Nylanderia cf. rosae, Myrmecia brevinoda/forficata, Polyrhachis australis, Solenopsis/Monomorium

Key: Q = Queen, W = Worker, M = Major

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#35 Offline justanotheramy - Posted August 19 2022 - 10:24 PM

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I got the Bullant Den, and it arrived a couple of days ago.

I really like it!

We can see what she's doing, but she feels a lot safer. She's a lot more active in there than I realised, pacing about.
And she tickles the larvae with her antenna until they wiggle, which is… both interesting and a bit adorable?


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