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Delaware 6-11-2021

Started By gsparrow , Jun 11 2021 8:15 AM

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#1 Offline gsparrow - Posted June 11 2021 - 8:15 AM

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Greetings,

I found this small colony about a year ago and am just getting around to posting pictures for ID.

1. Location of collection: Newport, New Castle County, Delaware

2. Date of collection: April 2021

3. Habitat of collection - wooded

4. Length - queen is about 6mm long and worker about 3 mm.

5. Coloration, Hue, texture-

6. Distinguishing Characteristics:

7. Anything else distictive - they seem to be an untidy type of ant? Leave old/used food items in nest area.

8. Nest description - Found small colony under a small log. They were in the leaf litter that was under the log.

9. nuptial flight date - N/A

PIcs

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#2 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted June 11 2021 - 8:18 AM

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Aphaenogaster species.

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#3 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted June 11 2021 - 6:25 PM

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Agreed with kael

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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): ★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus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.