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Posted June 18 2024 - 6:20 PM
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Are these claustral cells? Should I dig these up and try to unearth the queens if so? And if so, how should I go about doing it?
In this photo, you may not see it, a tetramorium immigrans worker is attempting to bury the entrance. All those pieces of debris are from her and her buddies.
This one looks a lot fresher, dirt still wet.
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Posted June 18 2024 - 6:27 PM
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See how many workers come and go. If smaller-than-average size workers exit and enter and there aren't a lot of them, it probably means it's a newly dug nest with only nanitic workers.
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Posted June 18 2024 - 7:03 PM
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Those appear to be colonies, in my opinion - especially the first picture. Chambers will have a different shaped tumuli and wouldn't have workers exiting, entering, or even interacting with the chamber aside from evicting the queen.
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Posted June 19 2024 - 3:44 PM
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Okay got it, I'll check for nanitics. Thanks!
Currently raising:
Myrmica Rubra
Camponotus Modoc
Lasius Niger
"In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems."
- E. O. Wilson
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