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https://imgur.com/a/QtrL9

https://imgur.com/a/TuZVg

[Phoenix]

Definitely not Solenopsis, probably a Myrmica queen instead.

[Martialis]

Measurements, please.

 

 

This is Myrmica. There's a species of Myrmica invasive to Canada with its common name being the "European fire ant," so you're technically correct in stating that there are fire ants in Canada.

[KBant]

Please refer to the following template because that looks like a chicken nugget to me.

 

Title:

1. Location (on a map) of collection (ie: city/town, state/province, country).
2. Today's date (this lets people know whether it's a new thread or an old one that has just been updated or resurrected).

 

Body:

1. Location (on a map) of collection: 

2. Date of collection: 
3. Habitat of collection: 
4. Length (from head to gaster):
5. Color, hue, pattern and texture: 
6. Distinguishing characteristics: 
7. Distinguishing behavior:
8. Nest description: 

9. Nuptial flight time and date:

[Images of ant]
 
[Images of nest]
 
[Images of habitat]

 

 

 

 
Body:
1. Location of collection (ie: park/area, city/town, state/province, country). You can be more specific here than in the title, but please include the information in the title here as well.

2. Date of collection (more important for ID's of queens).
3. Habitat of collection (ie: desert scrub, oak forest, riparian, etc.).
4. Length (to the nearest millimeter or 1/16th of an inch.) Millimeters is preferred. Length is measured from the tip of the head to the tip of the gaster, excluding antennae, legs and stingers. Do not estimate, use a ruler! No matter how good you think you are at guessing the length of something, it's amazing how far off you can be sometimes.
5. Coloration, hue, pattern and texture (ie: dark redish-orange head, velvet-like gaster, translucent, hairy/bald, shiny/dull, etc.). Be as specific as possible, and you can use the diagram below if you need it.
6. Distinguishing characteristics (ie: one petiole node/two petiole nodes, length and orientation of any spines or bumps on the thorax or waist, head shape, eye size, shape of mandibles, number of antennal segments, etc.)
7. Anything else distinctive (ie: odor, behavior, characteristics relative to others in the colony, etc.).
8. Nest description (if you can find the nest, and you're sure it belongs to the ant you collected) (ie: rotted log, volcano-shaped mound of coarse gavel 10cm in diameter, etc.).

9. Nuptial flight time and date (if you witnessed the ant or it's colony having a nuptial flight or caught an alate you are confident was flying that day or time)
10 . Post the clearest pictures possible of the top, side, and face of the ant in question, and if possible, their nest and the habitat they were collected in.

 

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Edited by KBant, March 18 2018 - 1:38 PM.