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Queen ID North Hills, CA 6/9/15


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#1 Offline Tpro4 - Posted June 9 2015 - 7:35 PM

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About 2 mm in kength
light brown head and thorax and black abdomen
Light drizzle brought them up
huge swarm
very fast runners

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#2 Offline Tpro4 - Posted June 9 2015 - 7:53 PM

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that is how many containers i filled
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#3 Offline Tpro4 - Posted June 9 2015 - 7:57 PM

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#4 Offline dspdrew - Posted June 10 2015 - 1:20 AM

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I highly doubt that is 2mm in length. Did you use a ruler, or did you estimate it? It looks like Nylanderia.


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#5 Offline Tpro4 - Posted June 10 2015 - 5:52 AM

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I estimated because I do not have mm they were almost half a cm. Are those Poly?


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#6 Offline Ants4fun - Posted June 10 2015 - 9:19 AM

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I estimated because I do not have mm they were almost half a cm. Are those Poly?



Half of a centimeter is 5 millimeters. There are 10 millimeters in a centimeter. Are you asking wether or not they are polygynous?
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#7 Offline dspdrew - Posted June 10 2015 - 4:14 PM

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That would be the right size for Nylanderia.



#8 Offline Tpro4 - Posted June 11 2015 - 6:17 AM

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I estimated because I do not have mm they were almost half a cm. Are those Poly?


Half of a centimeter is 5 millimeters. There are 10 millimeters in a centimeter. Are you asking wether or not they are polygynous?

yes, i am asking if they are polygynous, I caught so many of them.
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#9 Offline Trailandstreet - Posted June 11 2015 - 6:53 AM

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Ants often meet to swarm on special places like hills or other exposed things. Thst does not mean, that they are polygynous. Only when more than one fertile queen is IN THE NEST, than the colony ist polygynous.

But FYI there are several forms of polygyny.


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#10 Offline Tpro4 - Posted June 13 2015 - 10:28 AM

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sadly all 52 queens and 3 drones are now dead i don't know why, but my other colonies seems to like it.
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Current Queens:
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