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Help with pharaoh ants!

Started By Guest_SolenopsisKeeper_* , Feb 24 2022 3:54 PM

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#21 Offline Manitobant - Posted February 26 2022 - 3:10 PM

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Also, what is the difference between the Temnothorax and tetromorium?(Microscopic) and care

well for starters Tetramorium are much more elongated than temnothorax, and have a different body and head shape. They are also much more common in urban areas, as opposed to temnothorax which prefer forests and other undisturbed places. When it comes to care, Tetramorium colonies are much larger than temnothorax, even in small species like caldarium. They also grow much faster than temnothorax, even with a single queen.

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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/

#22 Offline Guest_SolenopsisKeeper_* - Posted February 27 2022 - 1:27 PM

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Also, the reason I have been questioning, is bc I got 2 different answers. A discord server an entomologist gave me the link, said Temnothorax and y’all say Tetromorium. Sorry about that. Also, here are some pictures of the workers. Tetromorium?

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#23 Offline Manitobant - Posted February 27 2022 - 2:46 PM

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Yeah its Tetramorium. Also assuming you got the temnothorax ID from the “ants and ant keeping” discord server, you should know that the people IDing stuff there aren’t actually entomologists and that the server is well known for misidentifying common ant species.