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[OwlThatLikesAnts]

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:

 

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

[ReignofRage]

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?

[OwlThatLikesAnts]

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.

[RushmoreAnts]

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.

[OwlThatLikesAnts]

hopefully these are better photos

 

 

[OwlThatLikesAnts]

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.