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Started By eea , Mar 25 2022 11:19 AM

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#1 Offline eea - Posted March 25 2022 - 11:19 AM

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I found 3 tiny termite looking insects between the glass and nest and i am not sure if the are harmful


Edited by eea, March 25 2022 - 11:26 AM.

#2 Offline Manitobant - Posted March 25 2022 - 11:25 AM

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Pics?

Edited by Manitobant, March 25 2022 - 11:26 AM.

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 eea - Posted March 25 2022 - 11:26 AM

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one escaped before i got a good picture of it and the smaller ones ran away


#4 Offline Manitobant - Posted March 25 2022 - 11:27 AM

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Your description makes me think booklice but without pics it’s impossible to say for sure.
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/

#5 Offline eea - Posted March 25 2022 - 11:35 AM

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Thought so but they look pretty similar then again they are tiny and I can't see them well.


#6 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 25 2022 - 1:18 PM

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Your description makes me think booklice but without pics it’s impossible to say for sure.

I second this opinion.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#7 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted March 26 2022 - 10:04 AM

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Booklice pose no significant threat to the ants.


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

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

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

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