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Posted August 21 2016 - 8:28 AM
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Hi guys, I caught this queen last month 10th July, and she just got her nanitics tonight.
Queen is around 5mm in length, while the nanitics are around 1-2mm in length.
The second queen I caught in mid July as well, She has lots of workers by now. I am guessing she is a Crematogaster sp. but I don't know what species she is.
Queen is 6mm in legth, workers are 2mm in length.
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Posted November 21 2016 - 3:15 PM
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2nd one looks like a crematogaster.
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Posted November 21 2016 - 5:22 PM
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The first looks like Tapinoma melanocephalum.
Current Species:
Camponotus fragilis
Novomessor cockerelli
Pogonomyrmex montanus
Pogonomyrmex rugosus
Manica bradleyi
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Posted November 21 2016 - 7:17 PM
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In subsequent images of the first queen (on the antscanada forum), you can see she has an acidepore acidopore.
Edited by Batspiderfish, November 22 2016 - 3:54 PM.
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Posted November 21 2016 - 9:38 PM
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looks like a ghost ant
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Posted November 22 2016 - 6:12 AM
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In subsequent images of the first queen (on the antscanada forum), you can see she has an acidepore.
Finally I caught myself two ghost ant queens, unlike what you said in antscanada forum, their gaster do expand after I fed them with honey.
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Posted November 22 2016 - 7:26 AM
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In subsequent images of the first queen (on the antscanada forum), you can see she has an acidepore.
Interesting. But what else could this be? Is there a formicine with such distinctive coloration?
Current Species:
Camponotus fragilis
Novomessor cockerelli
Pogonomyrmex montanus
Pogonomyrmex rugosus
Manica bradleyi
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Posted November 22 2016 - 12:22 PM
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+1 for Tapinoma melanocephalum and Crematogaster sp
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Posted November 22 2016 - 3:30 PM
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This is why it isn't Tapinoma. I'm banking on Nylanderia.
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Posted November 23 2016 - 12:57 AM
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This is why it isn't Tapinoma. I'm banking on Nylanderia.
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Posted November 23 2016 - 1:01 AM
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Posted November 23 2016 - 8:00 AM
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Anyway, be it a Tapinoma or Nylanderia, it doesn't matter anymore as the queen died. The colony of workers soon joined their queen as well.
I'm not looking at how the gaster expands -- the tip of the gaster has an acidopore, which means she is in the Formicinae subfamily, not Dolichoderinae (which Tapinoma belongs to).
Edited by Batspiderfish, November 23 2016 - 8:01 AM.
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Posted November 23 2016 - 3:19 PM
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Anyway, be it a Tapinoma or Nylanderia, it doesn't matter anymore as the queen died. The colony of workers soon joined their queen as well.
I'm not looking at how the gaster expands -- the tip of the gaster has an acidopore, which means she is in the Formicinae subfamily, not Dolichoderinae (which Tapinoma belongs to).
Cool to know, anyway. The workers already died this morning. This mark the end of this colony. One queen and six workers.
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