Before we begin i don't know if this is even a queen or what it is so please look at pictures first.
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1. Found in Santa Monica, California walking in an Argentine ant nest (i think the nest is argentine).
2. Found 9/24/16
3. in a school yard, its nest was a crack in the ground with a trail leading up to a medium tree which they had ants on.
4. It is 3-4 mm long
5. It has a black head and a black gaster with a orange thorax.
6. antennae look curved like a beetles and has arrow shaped gaster (playing into my idea that it isn't a queen).
7. The queen is very fast and looked a different color (orange) than the workers. The workers wernt paying attention to the queen
8. its nest was a crack in the ground with a trail leading up to a medium tree which they had ants on.
Picture of the queen its self.
Picture of the queen a out view.
I'll get better pics soon but can you tell if its a queen or not? Thanks!
Edited by EnderzATwar411, September 24 2016 - 4:26 PM.
it was acting like it was part of the colony so i thought it was maybe a queen
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