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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2012 23:49:01 GMT 1
Hello, all. I live on the East Coast of the US. I found this queen digging a nest outside of my house. She was quite fast. It has been many years since I last kept ants and I am eager to get back into the habit. I might be older but I still remember how to catch'em like it was my last name . Is this a camponotus castaneus queen? Don't have much experience ID'ing camponotus species.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2012 5:05:33 GMT 1
Do you live in the Northeast, or Southeast? What is the length of the queen in millimeters?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2012 12:58:12 GMT 1
South East. I could not tell you her size in millimeters. She's about the length of my thumbnail. Here is another photo.
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Post by Myrm on Jul 22, 2012 13:04:26 GMT 1
I appreciate that for some reason you are not able to upload a picture to a host service such as PhotoBucket, but are you not able to reduce the size of the picture before attaching it to a post? Your latest picture is almost 1MB in size and we only have a limited amount of space for these pictures.
As it stands the pictures are so large that they are not vary clear to see. People are having to download the picture and recur its size by at least 25% just to see it with more clarity.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2012 13:09:44 GMT 1
I appreciate that for some reason you are not able to upload a picture to a host service such as PhotoBucket, but are you not able to reduce the size of the picture before attaching it to a post? Your latest picture is almost 1MB in size and we only have a limited amount of space for these pictures. As it stands the pictures are so large that they are not vary clear to see. People are having to download the picture and recur its size by at least 25% just to see it with more clarity. I took the photos with my phone and sent them to my laptop. When I open them on my laptop they appear fine but when I upload them to the forum... they are gargantuan. I don't have any image editors or programs on my laptop since I only use it for writing and internet. So I will have to fix the issue when I take new photos -- these two are from the same set of photos I took when I checked on my queen for the first time. I hope this is the only problem I have to deal with when it comes to this queen. Thanks again. I won't upload anymore until the problem is resolved.
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Post by Myrm on Jul 22, 2012 13:12:22 GMT 1
Do you not have the default image editors Paint (Windows) or Preview (Mac) both of which have an option to reduce the size of images?
I have just reduce your second picture from 936KB to 29KB simply by using the default image editor on my MacBook Pro labtop.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2012 13:17:51 GMT 1
I have preview on my mac, yes. I just used it to resize and crop this image -- I didn't know preview could do that. Silly me... I hope it works right. EDIT: Ah. That's better. Thanks Myrm. My queen thanks you for helping her slim down Attachments:
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Post by Myrm on Jul 22, 2012 13:18:42 GMT 1
Much better. Thank you. She's a beautiful queen.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2012 14:49:19 GMT 1
She certainly caught my eye. I'm hoping to confirm she is a camponotus castaenus queen because I want to boost her with the brood of an established nest. I've never raised a mated queen of this species before and I'm already dreading hibernating her.
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Post by Myrm on Jul 22, 2012 15:21:27 GMT 1
It certainly looks like a Camponotus castanets queen, such as the one seen here. However, in your first picture there seems to be quite a long petiole (the waist that connects the thorax to the abdomen), though it could just be the angle at which the picture was taken. Is the petiole on your queen vary short with one segment, or does it look long and thin with two little nodules?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2012 16:01:36 GMT 1
By the looks of her, I'm fairly certain she is a formicine and Camponotus castaneus.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2012 16:09:48 GMT 1
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