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Started By Billy , Sep 9 2015 7:47 AM

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#1041 Offline Ernteameise - Posted July 12 2024 - 1:23 PM

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and then back home i spotted this happening on the way into work.

 

my foot for scale, US 11.5:

Is this a war?

Or a raid?

Pavement ants?


#1042 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted July 12 2024 - 1:27 PM

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Seems like it, and a big one!


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Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#1043 Offline Full_Frontal_Yeti - Posted July 12 2024 - 2:57 PM

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and then back home i spotted this happening on the way into work.

 

my foot for scale, US 11.5:

Is this a war?

Or a raid?

Pavement ants?

 

 

as best as i could tell there as only one kind of ant there, and they were not fighting but just hanging out.

They didn't even seem to be agitated too much, kind of slow moving, and i imagined something had disturbed their nest under the pavement in some way, like maybe a leaky pipe or something.


#1044 Offline kalimant - Posted July 14 2024 - 6:44 AM

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"Want some?"

Pheidole megacephala minor offers decapitated fire ant carcass during raid of fire ant nest.

 

https://keyapa.com/p...-fire-ant-nest/

 

 

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#1045 Offline WideBrownLand - Posted July 27 2024 - 4:56 PM

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I have been sifting leaf litter to find new ant species and I got this one a while ago but would love to know what it is. It is only millimetres long and was in my backyard in South East Queensland.

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#1046 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 27 2024 - 6:08 PM

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and then back home i spotted this happening on the way into work.

my foot for scale, US 11.5:
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Tetramorium territorial battle. Always fun to see!
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#1047 Offline Stubyvast - Posted July 28 2024 - 2:40 PM

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Man I've seen so many of those wars around BC it's just amazing. You can expect at least 5 at my school just during the spring!


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Lasius Niger (single queen + ~90+ workers)

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Formica spp. (Queen [likely parasitic, needs brood])

Also keeping a friend's tetramorium immigrans for the foreseeable future. Thanks CoffeBlock!

#1048 Offline kalimant - Posted August 1 2024 - 5:07 AM

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I have been sifting leaf litter to find new ant species and I got this one a while ago but would love to know what it is. It is only millimetres long and was in my backyard in South East Queensland.

 

I would post this in the facebook Myrmecology group maybe. They have quite a few researchers there.


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#1049 Offline kalimant - Posted August 6 2024 - 1:20 AM

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Pheidole megacephala minor carrying major. The soldier probably got lost or is confused or injured from a recent raid.

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#1050 Offline kalimant - Posted August 8 2024 - 8:07 AM

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Drunken Carpenter Ants?

 

They keep coming too close to the foraging lines of the Pheidole megacephala

 

I actually have no idea how the smaller ants manage to initially snag them, but it's happened 3 times now.

 

https://keyapa.com/p...carpenter-ants/

 

 

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I currently maintain a site dedicated to the hyper-diverse myrmicine genus Pheidole.:

 

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I also own the Lurker's Guide to Leafcutters Ants

 

#1051 Offline WideBrownLand - Posted August 12 2024 - 12:39 PM

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A Camponotus aurocinctus that I saw on a recent holiday in South Australia. Completely different colouring to all of the other Camponotus that I have seen,

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#1052 Offline GOCAMPONOTUS - Posted August 12 2024 - 12:42 PM

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A Camponotus aurocinctus that I saw on a recent holiday in South Australia. Completely different colouring to all of the other Camponotus that I have seen,

Just stunning :o


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Currently keeping: 2 C.vicinus colonies.2 C.sansabeanus. 1 C.leavissimus. 2 C.Ca02. 1 V.pergandei. 4 T.immigrans.1 F.pacifica. 1 C.hyatti

1 M.ergatognya

 

 

 

 

Trying to get my hands on :C.modoc,A.vercicolor, and Any Honeypots

  

 

 

#1053 Offline Stubyvast - Posted August 12 2024 - 4:31 PM

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Wow looks so awesome! Love the yellow and red coloration. A real fashion statement, (although probably in reality more like: Hey, if you eat me, you're not gonna feel so good when my buddies come for you)

Just ordered a macro lens, so I can finally post nice pics without the grainy look from over-digital-magnification.


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Currently raising: 

Myrmica Rubra (1 queen +  ~5 workers)

Lasius Niger (single queen + ~90+ workers)

Lasius Neoniger (two single queen + brood)

Formica spp. (Queen [likely parasitic, needs brood])

Also keeping a friend's tetramorium immigrans for the foreseeable future. Thanks CoffeBlock!

#1054 Offline OwlThatLikesAnts - Posted August 13 2024 - 3:35 PM

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A Camponotus aurocinctus that I saw on a recent holiday in South Australia. Completely different colouring to all of the other Camponotus that I have seen,

Absolutely beautiful, all of these ant photos are making me jealous because of how I have no exiting species around me 


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Currently keeping:

 

1x Solenopsis molesta

1x Formica subsericea (polygynous) has WORKERS!!!  :yahoo: RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

2x Lasius niger (one is polygynous and the other is monogynous) 

#1055 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted August 13 2024 - 6:49 PM

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A Camponotus aurocinctus that I saw on a recent holiday in South Australia. Completely different colouring to all of the other Camponotus that I have seen,

Absolutely beautiful, all of these ant photos are making me jealous because of how I have no exiting species around me 

 

I mean, you guys do have parasitic Formica, Polyergus, Stigmatomma pallipes ('Dracula' ants), Strumigenys (a genus of Trap-jaw ants), parasitic Lasius, parasitic Aphaenogaster, Camponotus castaneus, Prenolepis imparis, I'd say those are pretty interesting and beautiful.

 

Antmaps.org


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#1056 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted August 14 2024 - 6:57 AM

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A Camponotus aurocinctus that I saw on a recent holiday in South Australia. Completely different colouring to all of the other Camponotus that I have seen,

Absolutely beautiful, all of these ant photos are making me jealous because of how I have no exiting species around me 

 

As ANTdrew would say, keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways. That's become my motto for antkeeping. Thanks ANTdrew!


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#1057 Offline OwlThatLikesAnts - Posted August 14 2024 - 8:39 AM

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A Camponotus aurocinctus that I saw on a recent holiday in South Australia. Completely different colouring to all of the other Camponotus that I have seen,

Absolutely beautiful, all of these ant photos are making me jealous because of how I have no exiting species around me 

 

I mean, you guys do have parasitic Formica, Polyergus, Stigmatomma pallipes ('Dracula' ants), Strumigenys (a genus of Trap-jaw ants), parasitic Lasius, parasitic Aphaenogaster, Camponotus castaneus, Prenolepis imparis, I'd say those are pretty interesting and beautiful.

 

Antmaps.org

 

If only they lived in the more southern part of Quebec and not the heart  :facepalm:

 

(I am even more sad now lol)


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1x Solenopsis molesta

1x Formica subsericea (polygynous) has WORKERS!!!  :yahoo: RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

2x Lasius niger (one is polygynous and the other is monogynous) 

#1058 Offline WideBrownLand - Posted August 18 2024 - 2:27 AM

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A few more ants from my recent holiday to South Australia. The first pic is a Chelaner whitei, second pic a Calomyrmex purpurea and the last pic is of an unidentified Myrmecia species. All are from the arid areas of South Australia, in the north.

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#1059 Offline Stubyvast - Posted August 18 2024 - 5:37 PM

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wow. Ants in Australia are just stunning. Love the colouring on all three.


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Myrmica Rubra (1 queen +  ~5 workers)

Lasius Niger (single queen + ~90+ workers)

Lasius Neoniger (two single queen + brood)

Formica spp. (Queen [likely parasitic, needs brood])

Also keeping a friend's tetramorium immigrans for the foreseeable future. Thanks CoffeBlock!

#1060 Offline IdioticMouse26 - Posted August 18 2024 - 7:45 PM

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I think the myrmecia is M. urens


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