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Started By Billy , Sep 9 2015 7:47 AM

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#301 Offline Barristan - Posted June 28 2019 - 2:12 PM

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Lasius flavus guzzling their nightly protein shake (pupae of a blue bottle fly):

 

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#302 Offline Subs_and_Ships - Posted July 1 2019 - 3:37 PM

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One of my newest queens. Was splitting wood and found her protecting her young.
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#303 Offline Barristan - Posted July 19 2019 - 12:33 PM

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Camponotus cruentatus queen with eggs from the front:

 

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#304 Offline ConcordAntman - Posted July 27 2019 - 8:29 PM

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My newly adopted C. americanus colony has its first male alate!
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#305 Offline Barristan - Posted July 28 2019 - 12:03 AM

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Social parasitic Lasius queen carrying a dead Lasius cf. niger worker between her mandibles:

 

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#306 Offline rbarreto - Posted July 28 2019 - 9:24 PM

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Camponotus novaeboracensis major ripping through some Formica pergandei workers.

 

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#307 Offline ponerinecat - Posted July 31 2019 - 4:36 PM

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Parasitic formica undergoing nuptial flight

 

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Camponotus majors disputing territory

 

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Formica taking a sip of honeydew

 

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Parasitic formica hates all life (She was in the process of raiding a colony)

 

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A really weird little ant, like a pheidole sized camponotus queen(ID please)

 

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Stennama on a rock

 

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Odontomachus workers begging for freedom

 

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Tetramorium drinking from an ant plant

 

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Pheidole poised for flight

 

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These eggs were laid in a week and developed to pupae the next week

 

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A fish wants to be your friend

 

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Mr. Krabs has genetic deformities

 

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IDK what this is(ID please)

 

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Pristomyrmex bar fight

 

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Tetramorium police apprehending speeding pristomyrmex

 

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Small pheidole hiss at the light

 

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Pristomyrmex traffic jam

 

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Radioactive true bug?

 

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Trimorphic pheidole, pheidole nodus

 

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Dual queen formica

 

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She may have some minor stomach pain

 

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This is totally 100% an ant(Or is it?)

 

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Just carving out the best cuts

 

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I named this ant Jerealde

 

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Some sort of apheanogaster

 

(Sorry for straying from ants a bit)


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#308 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 8 2019 - 1:46 PM

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I think the "pheidole sized camponotus queen" is Dolichoderus.


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#309 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 8 2019 - 1:48 PM

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Crematogaster living in tombstone. I thought it was interesting.
Crematogaster living in tombstone

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#310 Offline Amazant - Posted August 12 2019 - 7:58 PM

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Crematogaster laeviuscula



Tetramorium Tsushimae


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Colonies: Formica pallidefulva, Lasius neoniger, Camponotus decipiens, Camponotus sp, Camponotus Vicinus, Crematogaster Sp

#311 Offline Mettcollsuss - Posted August 21 2019 - 9:33 AM

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Dorymyrmex bureni queen


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#312 Offline Amazant - Posted August 24 2019 - 5:28 PM

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Crematogaster laeviuscula





Edited by dspdrew, December 16 2020 - 7:28 PM.

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Colonies: Formica pallidefulva, Lasius neoniger, Camponotus decipiens, Camponotus sp, Camponotus Vicinus, Crematogaster Sp

#313 Offline CoolColJ - Posted September 6 2019 - 1:46 AM

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Rytidoponera metallica 9mm queen

Found this 9mm Rhytidoponera metallica queen today...

I decided I wasn't going to look for metallica queens this season, but she found me :)
I was stretching at the outdoor Basketball courts after my practise/workout, when I saw her slowly wandering around nearby on the edge of the court.

I wasn't sure if it was a queen, but she seemed longer than a typical worker, so I went back to my car to grab a capture tube. Once I got her back home, my jeweller's loupe confirmed thorax hump and wing scars

This one is docile. She just stood there motionless when I tipped her out of the tube. Probably knows she is captured.


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#314 Offline Mettcollsuss - Posted September 6 2019 - 4:25 AM

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Pogonomyrmex occidentalis queen + brood

 

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#315 Offline spartANTS - Posted September 14 2019 - 2:39 PM

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hello

i bought from amazon a usb microscope

here is a example of a Myrmica rubra

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and that the microscope 

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it's more that a gadget.


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#316 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 14 2019 - 10:04 PM

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that's really good


#317 Offline Hightlyze - Posted September 14 2019 - 10:38 PM

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HOW DO YOU GUYS TAKE THESE PICTURES?


i eat cars for breakfast everynight

#318 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 14 2019 - 10:43 PM

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macro lenses, flash diffusers, and practice and experience.


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#319 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted September 15 2019 - 11:39 AM

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tetramorium immigrans worker

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(It's my first picture using a macro lens, which is why it's not that good)

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He travels, he seeks the p a r m e s a n.

#320 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 15 2019 - 4:35 PM

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i don't even use macro lenses


just flash


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