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[ArcaneAnt]

Found her on a large upturned log in Idaho City on July 6th (2022). It was a very hot day, somewhere in the 90s(fahrenheit)
I don't have a good way of measuring her, but I'll look around for a ruler and update the post when I can.

She has pretty energetic, moving around quite a lot when I check in on her so I really try not to check in on her as much as I can cause I don't wanna stress her out too much.

Thankyou for all your help. I can safely assume she's a carpenter ant queen, but I would like to know the specific species. Modoc and  Pennsylvanicus have been suggested but I didn't have good photos before so hopefully we can come to a concrete answer :]

(first image is mostly a joke, I just thought it was a funny angle lol)
Last two images seem to be the most useful, I don't have that great of a camera

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Edited by ArcaneAnt, July 16 2022 - 12:59 PM.

[NickAnter]

This is probably modoc, but we'll need better lit pictures to be sure.

[ArcaneAnt]

This is probably modoc, but we'll need better lit pictures to be sure.

Yeah, but unfortunately this is the best quality photo I can get with my phones camera. My only hesitation to say its modoc is that her legs don't have the red hue that most other modoc queens seem to have (to the best of my knowledge). Maybe when the first workers come along we can also see if they have the distinctive red legs and say for sure maybe.