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2 types of new queens


Best Answer dspdrew , May 22 2016 - 2:31 PM

Looks like a black C. vicinus to me.

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#1 Offline Typo--29 - Posted May 18 2016 - 12:31 AM

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I recently caught 2 types of queens and I'm fairly certain both are campontus and one type is an all black vicinus but the other I have no idea

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#2 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 18 2016 - 4:44 AM

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It's impossible to know without having a location or other information.



#3 Offline Typo--29 - Posted May 18 2016 - 8:38 AM

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Magalia in northern California up in the woods(evergreen) around 2,500 feet up on the eastern side of the Sacramento vally all collected early to mid May

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#4 Offline Typo--29 - Posted May 18 2016 - 1:54 PM

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Also I'm not sure how to measure them. Would holding a ruler up to the test tube be accurate enough?

#5 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 18 2016 - 3:47 PM

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Also I'm not sure how to measure them. Would holding a ruler up to the test tube be accurate enough?

 

Anything's better than nothing. How big is the test tube?



#6 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 18 2016 - 3:52 PM

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I would suspect the black one is something other than a black C. vicinus. It's hard to ID Camponotus in the West without any high resolution pictures, particularly of the face.



#7 Offline Typo--29 - Posted May 19 2016 - 1:07 AM

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The all black ones at about 1.5-1.6 centimeters and ones with the yellowish are about 1.4

#8 Offline Typo--29 - Posted May 20 2016 - 9:42 AM

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I tried for a while but my camera just isn't good enough to get any better pics but the all black queens seem to be perfectly fine living in pairs I have two pairs(queens) living together and I have noticed eggs in both of their test tubes and two solitary queens that have accepted wild workers (all sets living together successfully for almost a week)

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#9 Offline Typo--29 - Posted May 22 2016 - 1:18 PM

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I finally got better pics of the 2 all black ones

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#10 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 22 2016 - 2:31 PM   Best Answer

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Looks like a black C. vicinus to me.


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#11 Offline Typo--29 - Posted May 22 2016 - 2:47 PM

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Awesome thank you I've been wanting to start a journal on here for them but I really wanted to have at least a good idea what the species was I also got better photos of the one with the redish

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#12 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 22 2016 - 4:42 PM

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I think the orange and black one might be C. semitestaceus. The pictures just aren't high enough resolution to say for sure. A lot of the subgenus Tanaemyrmex is really hard to tell apart, even when looking at them directly on a microscope.


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#13 Offline Typo--29 - Posted May 22 2016 - 7:40 PM

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Thank you for the help I really had no leads on that one I spent a good 2 hours going through different sites from Google and I just couldn't figure it out




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