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thomie: Ant Queen from North Italy (10. Aug 2009 20:41)

Hello,

During my vacation in Italy I've found a couple of Queens.
A lot of Queens where walking everywhere!
First i decided not to catch a Queen, but when i saw a Queen cutting of her wings i had to catch a few Queens.

Here are two pictures of an Queen. I must say on the picture it looks like an Lasius n iger Queen to me, however when i cached the Queen i haven't saw an Lasius n iger worker (only workers which where larger). The Queens are around 1 Cm.

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/6883/img0444m.jpg
http://img216.imageshack.us/i/img0442k.jpg

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/6883/img0444m.jpg
http://img216.imageshack.us/i/img0442k.jpg

Thomie

jartok: Re: Ant Queen from North Italy (10. Aug 2009 21:11)

bad links to pictures, youll need to redo them

thomie: Re: Ant Queen from North Italy (10. Aug 2009 21:15)

Thx. I've changed 1 picture. I'll update the other as fast as possible while imageshack gives an timed out message.

link to the galery
http://img44.imageshack.us/gal.php?g=img0444m.jpg

XToF: Re: Ant Queen from North Italy (11. Aug 2009 01:13)

Yes, it's Lasius niger ;)

thomie: Re: Ant Queen from North Italy (11. Aug 2009 19:04)

Ok thx. The strange thing is that i haven't spot any Lasius Niger colony. Only larger and smaller workers..
I'll wait till the first workers hatch (second check), but when i look at the pictures it looks like Lasius n iger.
I'm going to sell most of the colonies..