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Male tetramorium alate?

Started By ace2184 , Jun 21 2017 5:05 AM

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#1 Offline ace2184 - Posted June 21 2017 - 5:05 AM

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Have been out looking for queens the last couple evenings after work. Ran across this guy, but I wasn't clear on what it was. It seemed small, so I didn't think queen, and with the wings I assumed it was a male alate. Wasn't totally how to upload photos here (also I was falling asleep), so I put the pictures I did get on imgur. I apologize in advance for the sub-par photos.





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#2 Offline sgheaton - Posted June 21 2017 - 7:51 AM

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I do not think that is even a Tetramorium. 

 

This is what a Tetramorium Drone looks like:

 

Captured 6/17/17 in Colorado simply to help show what the differences are between Tet queens and drones. He has since died 2 days after capture so I should take some closer, better detailed photos. 


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#3 Offline ace2184 - Posted June 21 2017 - 9:20 AM

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Oh yeah, your guy looks nothing like what I took pictures of. Good assumption then that what I thought were tetramorium ants are something else. Need to work on my IDing.

#4 Offline sgheaton - Posted June 21 2017 - 9:27 AM

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Tetramoriums are the only thing I know. I shouldn't even be IDing but I'm so very confident on that one that I wanted to attempt to be helpful. I carry my tubes and see something with wings and I'll capture it and question what it is later. I've ended up with a sweat bee and a termite alate once. Heck, I captured ...6 pogonomyrmex rugosus drones last year because I didn't know the difference. 


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#5 Offline ace2184 - Posted June 21 2017 - 9:32 AM

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That makes me feel a little better. I've been seeing mostly smaller ants lately so yesterday I got excited about a camponotus worker. Took me a couple minutes to realize what it was.

#6 Offline sgheaton - Posted June 21 2017 - 10:04 AM

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Keep it up and hang in there! Wolf, another Colorado Anter, has some Camponotus and I think he's the only one in Colorado right now that does... 


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#7 Offline ace2184 - Posted June 21 2017 - 10:51 AM

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No discouragement here! I went in not expecting anything this first summer. All just a learning process.

#8 Offline 123LordOfAnts123 - Posted June 21 2017 - 12:14 PM

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Whatever it is, the pictures make it almost look like some sort of fly.

#9 Offline Volant - Posted June 21 2017 - 2:36 PM

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I'm pretty sure it is a Braconidae Sp. (Wasp)
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"Oportet nos cognoscere ex nostrorum VI-tripodes amicis."

 

Founding:

Tetramorium cf. caespitum (x1)

 

Lasius cf. Neoniger (x1)

 

Colony:

Tetramorium cf. caespitum (x1)

 
Solenopsis molesta (x3)
 
Aphaenogaster cf. picea (x1)

#10 Offline gcsnelling - Posted June 21 2017 - 2:39 PM

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Would be worth saving this as a specimen for future study.


#11 Offline dspdrew - Posted June 21 2017 - 4:46 PM

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Falling asleep and still figured out how to actually embed his pictures. I'm impressed. :)


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#12 Offline ace2184 - Posted June 21 2017 - 7:12 PM

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Falling asleep and still figured out how to actually embed his pictures. I'm impressed. :)


I can't tell an ant from a wasp apparently, but I can embed till the cows come home lol.
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#13 Offline sgheaton - Posted June 22 2017 - 5:13 AM

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Or..... you continue to post them however you see fit because its entirely opinionated. 


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