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[CatsnAnts]

Hi all, it's been a while and my identification skills are a bit rusty, so I want a little bit of help with two dealates that I found yesterday:

 

 

Queen #1:

Location: Jasper, Indiana

Date of collection: May 21st

Time: 11:30 a.m.

Size: 9 mm

Distinguishing features: none

 

- I found this queen a bit early for what I'm used to finding queens around here. I'm pretty sure that she's a Formica species, but beyond that I'm not sure.

 

 

 

Queen #2:

Location: Jasper, Indiana

Date of collection: May 21st

Time: 11:30 a.m.

Size: 4.5 mm

Distinguishing features: very tiny

 

- I found this queen in the same spot right after I found the previous queen, she appears to be an Aphaenogaster queen, and I'm kind of hoping that she's not A. tennesseensis because I don't really want to deal with social parasites right now ahah.

 

 

[Mettcollsuss]

Formica pallidefulva group, likely incerta but should wait for some non-nanitic workers to ID for sure, and Aphaenogaster tennesseensis

Edited by Mettcollsuss, May 22 2023 - 12:09 PM.

[LowQualityAnts]

Those are some nice pictures

[AntsCali098]

Those are some nice pictures

Agreed

[Virginian_ants]

That camera do you use?

[CatsnAnts]

That camera do you use?

Here’s my guide, camera mentioned at the top of post. It’s a pretty old camera lol.

https://www.formicul...graphy-methods/

Edited by CatsnAnts, May 25 2023 - 11:08 AM.

[Virginian_ants]

I will definitely use that.