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Is this an Ant, a Queen? Sydney, Australia - 29/3/2018

Started By CoolColJ , Mar 28 2018 5:02 PM

Best Answer T.C. , March 28 2018 - 5:21 PM

Male.

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#1 Offline CoolColJ - Posted March 28 2018 - 5:02 PM

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LocationSydney, Australia

1. Location of collection - my backyard
2. Date of collection - 29th March 2018
3. Habitat of collection - typical backyard
4. Length - about 6mm
5. Coloration - orange
Slender in appearance

She was wandering around on the ground
My first thought was ant queen, so I captured her.

She is in the test tube and she is just standing there .

But upon looking at the photos, she looks like something else?

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#2 Offline T.C. - Posted March 28 2018 - 5:21 PM Best Answer

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Male.

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#3 Offline CoolColJ - Posted March 28 2018 - 5:24 PM

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Male.

thanks, that means I missed the queens

Might be a Phediole male, I've been waiting for the Pheidole to fly all month

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#4 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted March 29 2018 - 6:40 AM

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Male.
thanks, that means I missed the queens

Might be a Phediole male, I've been waiting for the Pheidole to fly all month

Males often fly before females for a few days. Look at night and during the day, I'm sure you will find something.

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#5 Offline CoolColJ - Posted March 29 2018 - 9:47 AM

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Male.
thanks, that means I missed the queens

Might be a Phediole male, I've been waiting for the Pheidole to fly all month
Males often fly before females for a few days. Look at night and during the day, I'm sure you will find something.

Actually I think these males are just Pheidole males wandering outside their nest pre flight day.
When I went back to the spot I found this one, to release it, there was a Pheidole nest where he was wandering around.

A metre away I found another male that just popped out of a nest, and then disappeared back into the nest.

#6 Offline CoolColJ - Posted March 29 2018 - 1:00 PM

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LOL, I was about to leave work in my car and turned the wipers on, and saw a queen ant on my screen, I franticly got out ( I keep queen capture vials in my car for such occasions!) and try to cpature it, but she ran into the crack of the screen trim. I also saw a male there and a bunch of wings

So I blew into the crack and eventually flushed her out - bag one Pheidole queen - the all red ones

There were a ton of wings on my car bonnet actually! I looked around for more but they were long gone.

I also saw magpies around so, that kinda clued me in.

Also when I arrived at 5:30am, I looked around under lights etc, and no sign of them.
So between 6 and 7am they flew, so most likely around dawn

Hmm, but no activity in my backyard, but I did see some males wandering around yesterday. So maybe soon. Still waiting of the black Pheidole species to start flying