[fixed a typo and revised the title --antdude]
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Hello everyone, I pretty much gave up on anting because it's real hard to come by real ants other than invasive species such as Argentines in my area. But
today I went over to a friend's house and surprisingly found 2 queens in the really cold temperature. I found them crawling out of the ground around 2PM in
Long Beach CA (SoCal). They were so extremely small that I had almost mistaken them for workers until I had a closer look. They are around 4mm, they're
really tiny. Anyone have any idea what species?
[fixed a typo and revised the title --antdude]
Last Edited By: antdude 11/28/2009 11:10 AM.
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Wow look cool but don't no ID
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Well one of the queen just died. I put them both in test tube setups. They're so small that the queen got stuck to the moist cotton ball and died.
Hopefully the other one lives. I really want to see her start a colony. No eggs from any of them so far.
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Monomorium ergatogyna
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Geez you're awesome, seems like it.
Anything special about this specific species?
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It's a common western species, widely distributed, notwithstanding the fact that the queens are flightless -- no wings. New colonies are reputed to be
founded by colonies dividing and separating over land. Your find of queens without workers doesn't conform to this, but the fact is we really don't
know much about the basic natural history of most, even common, ants.
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