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Another Lasius parasite?


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#1 Offline OwlThatLikesAnts - Posted September 21 2024 - 2:49 PM

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1. Location of collection: can't tell
2. Date of collection: 2024-09-21
3. In a an apple orchard under a rotting log
4. About 6mm
5. smooth with an orange head and thorax with a brown abdomen
6. I have seen others like her but she is more orange
7. Very very active and feisty
8. Was found in some sort of founding chamber

9. nuptial flight probably a couple days ago

 

Photos of her:

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(sorry it was hard to get good pics cuz she just kept moving  %) )


Currently keeping:

 

1x Formica subsericea, (used to be polygynous) 15+ workers with 4 pupa (Idk why they still have)

1x Lasius umbratus, (Workers accepted) 5+ workers with host brood

1x Ponera pennsylvanica, just queen

 

As you watch your ants march, remember: every journey begins with a single step (or queen)-not just towards you, but towards a future woven by diligence and shared dreams - Me

 

(I lost braincells just to make this quote)


#2 Offline ReignofRage - Posted September 21 2024 - 2:58 PM

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Although you may not want to share a percise locale, a general locale would help eliminate possible options - especially when we don't get the luxury of macro photos. With that said, it is a parasitic Lasius. Perhaps it's a Chthonolasius species?



#3 Offline OwlThatLikesAnts - Posted September 21 2024 - 3:07 PM

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Although you may not want to share a percise locale, a general locale would help eliminate possible options - especially when we don't get the luxury of macro photos. With that said, it is a parasitic Lasius. Perhaps it's a Chthonolasius species?

I mean I am in Quebec, Montreal, and I do have a macro but, it is really bad and It's no difference, I'd say it actually makes it worse


Edited by OwlThatLikesAnts, September 21 2024 - 3:11 PM.

Currently keeping:

 

1x Formica subsericea, (used to be polygynous) 15+ workers with 4 pupa (Idk why they still have)

1x Lasius umbratus, (Workers accepted) 5+ workers with host brood

1x Ponera pennsylvanica, just queen

 

As you watch your ants march, remember: every journey begins with a single step (or queen)-not just towards you, but towards a future woven by diligence and shared dreams - Me

 

(I lost braincells just to make this quote)


#4 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted September 21 2024 - 7:00 PM

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Due to the fact her whole exoskeleton appears to be lustrous and has thick legs I would be inclined to say Acanthomyops, perhaps L. claviger, though it could be the angle; better photos are required for a definitive answer.


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis


#5 Offline OwlThatLikesAnts - Posted September 22 2024 - 4:12 AM

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hopefully these are better photos

 

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Currently keeping:

 

1x Formica subsericea, (used to be polygynous) 15+ workers with 4 pupa (Idk why they still have)

1x Lasius umbratus, (Workers accepted) 5+ workers with host brood

1x Ponera pennsylvanica, just queen

 

As you watch your ants march, remember: every journey begins with a single step (or queen)-not just towards you, but towards a future woven by diligence and shared dreams - Me

 

(I lost braincells just to make this quote)


#6 Offline OwlThatLikesAnts - Posted September 23 2024 - 3:05 AM

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Another thing is that she was not accepted as fast as the other one, in fact she is still trying to get in

 

edit: she is now spending a lot of time in the outworld and not doing anything much, is she really parasitic?


Edited by OwlThatLikesAnts, September 23 2024 - 8:57 AM.

Currently keeping:

 

1x Formica subsericea, (used to be polygynous) 15+ workers with 4 pupa (Idk why they still have)

1x Lasius umbratus, (Workers accepted) 5+ workers with host brood

1x Ponera pennsylvanica, just queen

 

As you watch your ants march, remember: every journey begins with a single step (or queen)-not just towards you, but towards a future woven by diligence and shared dreams - Me

 

(I lost braincells just to make this quote)





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