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Identify Strange Queen Ant

Started By AntPhycho , Jul 24 2017 10:22 AM
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#1 Offline AntPhycho - Posted July 24 2017 - 10:22 AM

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I captured this strange queen ant, well I think it's a queen. My question is can anyone identify if it is a queen and what species it is. Also has she mated? Here is the picture https://ibb.co/dgvt0Qshe was moving so its a bit blurry. Yes she does have 6 legs you can't really see all of them.


Edited by AntPhycho, July 24 2017 - 10:53 AM.

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#2 Offline Salmon - Posted July 24 2017 - 10:26 AM

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We really can't help you without a picture of the actual ant... especially since that picture doesn't even look like a queen, it bears more resemblance to a male army ant.

#3 Offline AntPhycho - Posted July 24 2017 - 10:33 AM

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Updated the page with a real photo.


Edited by AntPhycho, July 24 2017 - 10:51 AM.

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#4 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted July 24 2017 - 11:03 AM

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She isn't a queen, sorry.


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#5 Offline Ants4fun - Posted July 24 2017 - 11:06 AM

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Also, we can't tell wether or not an actual queen is fertilized just by looking at a photo.

#6 Offline AntPhycho - Posted July 24 2017 - 11:12 AM

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Ok thanks guys if its not a queen what is it?


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#7 Offline ctantkeeper - Posted July 24 2017 - 11:48 AM

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Ok thanks guys if its not a queen what is it?

Most likely a male ant. It is hard to give a definite I.D. for this one, given the low resolution of the photo. It may help to tell us where the photo was taken.


#8 Offline Serafine - Posted July 24 2017 - 11:56 AM

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All ant queens and workers have "ellbows" in their antennae. If an insect doesn't have antenna ellbows it's not a queen and probably not even an ant (it may be a male though).
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#9 Offline AntPhycho - Posted July 24 2017 - 12:08 PM

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Has elbows and I captured this guy flying around on my bed.


Edited by AntPhycho, July 24 2017 - 12:09 PM.

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#10 Offline ultraex2 - Posted July 24 2017 - 1:25 PM

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Yeah that looks like a wasp - ant antennae don't bend backwards like that.


#11 Offline Serafine - Posted July 24 2017 - 3:04 PM

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It's definitely not a queen, the only ants that look even remotely similar are Dorylus males.

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#12 Offline gcsnelling - Posted July 24 2017 - 4:06 PM

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Where as in what part of the country? Also please try to put the photo in the body of the message, many people here will not follow outside links, myself included.


#13 Offline Reacker - Posted July 24 2017 - 4:51 PM

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#14 Offline AntPhycho - Posted July 24 2017 - 5:26 PM

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I found it in California on my bed.
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Founding (for myself):                                                                                       My Shop

Solenopsis invicta experiments...                                                                     California

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#15 Offline gcsnelling - Posted July 25 2017 - 2:35 AM

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Ahh piece of cake, nocturnal velvet ant male. Id to species not so easy since the taxonomy is so messed up.


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