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#1 Offline Iddizy - Posted November 18 2016 - 2:27 PM

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Not sure if queen if not what species is it?
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#2 Offline Iddizy - Posted November 18 2016 - 2:36 PM

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The workers are giving this one a lot more attention so yeH

#3 Offline Saftron - Posted November 18 2016 - 3:15 PM

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Both look like Formica Workers.


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#4 Offline CallMeCraven - Posted November 18 2016 - 3:19 PM

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Both look like Formica Workers.

Ill second that they both look like workers. I don't know enough about the Formica genus to ID them to that, but I am almost positive you do not have a queen.


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#5 Offline Canadian anter - Posted November 18 2016 - 3:46 PM

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They are definetly workers. I think these might be Formica moki
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#6 Offline FSTP - Posted November 18 2016 - 5:14 PM

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usually queens are going to have a more dominate and pronounced thorax, and you can also see small scares where their wings once were....






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