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My Leptothorax queen finally got her first workers
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AntkeeperfromEstonia
, Feb 14 2025 3:33 AM
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Posted February 14 2025 - 3:33 AM
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I'm too lazy to start and maintain a journal, so I thought I'd make a separate post. I caught the queen in July from a flower bed at summer cottage and the journey has been rough because she ate her eggs quite a few times and I had some mishaps happen with the test tubes. But it doesn't matter, she pulled through. Sorry if the pictures aren't the best, it's a little bit hard to take pics of tiny ants with my phone.
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Posted February 14 2025 - 2:52 PM
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What exact species of leptothorax is it? I have never seen a species with black-orange colour combination.
Currently keeping:
1x Formica subsericea, 20+ workers + wait, SMALL BROOD PILE? IN FEBRUARY?!? 
1x Crematogaster cerasi 2 workers with brood (still growing)
*As you watch your ants march, remember that every thing begins with a small step and continued by diligence and shared dreams*
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Posted February 14 2025 - 7:34 PM
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I have never seen a species with black-orange colour combination.
Probably because they are from Estonia (assuming you've never been).
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"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:
Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea
Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra
Myrmica sp.
Lasius neoniger, brevicornis
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Posted February 15 2025 - 2:26 AM
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What exact species of leptothorax is it? I have never seen a species with black-orange colour combination.
I actually have no idea, I think it's either Leptothorax muscorum or Leptothorax acervorum, but I can't easily tell the difference.
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Posted February 15 2025 - 4:36 AM
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I have never seen a species with black-orange colour combination.
Probably because they are from Estonia (assuming you've never been).
It’s that the lepotothorax that he listed are partially black and orange, not completely like the photos he is showing, they could be a colour morph of the two species he listed or a different species.
Currently keeping:
1x Formica subsericea, 20+ workers + wait, SMALL BROOD PILE? IN FEBRUARY?!?
1x Crematogaster cerasi 2 workers with brood (still growing)
*As you watch your ants march, remember that every thing begins with a small step and continued by diligence and shared dreams*
-A.T (Me)
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Posted February 15 2025 - 9:14 AM
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I have never seen a species with black-orange colour combination.
Probably because they are from Estonia (assuming you've never been).
It’s that the lepotothorax that he listed are partially black and orange, not completely like the photos he is showing, they could be a colour morph of the two species he listed or a different species.
1) You could very well be right and it could be either a colour morph or a completely different species, but I put those, because they are the only two non-parasitic Leptothorax species in Estonia as far as I know.
2) The pictures aren't the best quality either, because I had to zoom in a bit and lighting is little bit weird
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