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[Connectimyrmex]

Hi!
Yesterday I went to the beach on a quest to find Maritime Earwigs, but instead I found a bunch of ants, bees, and myrmecophiles. I ended up keeping one Bumblebee(queen?) and two myrmecophilic isopods (I lost them both ). I also saw several interesting ants, most of which should not normally occur in CT. Here they are:
Linepithema humile, running on fencepost

Polyergus montivagus, scouting workers

A large and fairly large headed Myrmica sp, building up a small anthill

An odd Ponerine that was fairly large and elongated, sort of like Hypoponera, nesting under rocks in groups of 3-4

Any idea what they were doing there? I know that L. humile is tropical, so maybe it hitchhiked over and will die over the winter.

[VoidElecent]

Are you sure you saw Linepithema humile? They look similar to Tapinoma sessile.

[Connectimyrmex]

Pretty sure, but not 100% sure. They kind of had a longer abdomen than the average T. sessile.

[MegaMyrmex]

What did the ponerine ants look like? Fo they look like stigmatomma, perhaps?

[Connectimyrmex]

I know what Stigmatomma looks like, I have a colony of my own. The ponerines looked like Hypoponera, but bigger, darker, and faster.

[MegaMyrmex]

I would suggest brachyponera chinensis but I don't think in CT...

[Connectimyrmex]

Yeah, they aren't.