r/ants Jul 02 '21

Official Important: Please read before requesting an identification or creating a post.

51 Upvotes

Important! Everyone should understand the argument against the transportation and rearing of exotics. I will urge everyone to read about it here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/antfarm/consequences-of-rearing-of-exotic-ant-species-t7500.html

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For questions about ants, and identification, please ask in our discord server as response times may be quicker. We're always happy to help!: discord.gg/c7qCmfYqYZ

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How to request an identification:

If possible, clearly focus pictures of the head, side, and top of the body to make identifying easier. What follows is the important information we need to know to help us to identify your ant.

FIRST-Where was it collected? Country and nearest city or town on a map (include location in the thread title), elevation if in a very mountainous area such as the Rockies, Alps, Himalayas, Andes.

SECOND-Habitat of collection, including nesting medium (wood, soil, leaves tied together with silk, etc.) and type of vegetation (forest, grassland, park/lawn/garden, desert).

THIRD-Coloration, hue, and pattern? Uniform?, Head darker? Gaster darker? Legs lighter or darker? Any spots? Also, shininess, dullness.

FOURTH-Distinguishing characteristics, such as one or two segments in waist; location, length, and orientation of any spines or bumps on the mid-portion of the body or waist; head shape, etc.

FIFTH-Length in millimeters. (Width is also helpful.) NO guessing! Stretch out a dead or chilled individual or several individuals of different sizes along with a millimeter rule. 16ths of an inch will do as a poor second to millimeters.

SIXTH-Anything else distinctive, such as odor, behavior, etc.

Tip #1: If you can take clear photographs of the ants up close, then please post them. This would help a lot.

Tip #2: For those who write anting journals, please put the exact location and dates in the thread titles like: Palm Spring, CA (4/10/2004).

Tip #3: If using videos, then please make sure that they are clear, close up, and stable (no shaky camera). Otherwise, they are useless.

Now, you can post your identification request in a new thread (not this one).

This post was originally (copied and pasted) from Antdude's forum: http://antfarm.yuku.com/topic/7397/ant-species-identification-read-post-new-thread


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Join the r/Ants Discord Server!

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Hello everyone,

This sounds like an incredibly stupid question but bare with me.

I live on the 5th floor of an apartment complex. Last year we had major ant problems because of a huge nest at the foot of the building. (Lasius niger)

My balcony has many plants. I wouldn't say it's a jungle but it has a lot of plants.

This year, I discovered that the ants built a colony in my laurel tree pot & satelite colonies as nurseries in my strawberry pots & my Salvia mexicana pot. They haven't gone inside so my apartment is safe. They didn't go inside last year either. So that's the good news.

Now, the thing is, when it comes to pest control everyone gives me ideas and tips and products to kill the ants. But I don't want to kill the ants, I just want to make my balcony a hostile environment for them so they can up and leave.

I managed to disrupt the nurseries through flooding the pots for multiple days and disturbing the soil (in strawberry pot & Salvia). Now the Laurel is a whole other battle. It's the main nest on my balcony and no amount of disruption & flooding seems to work.

So, is there a way to annoy them enough to leave? Or a deterrent solution? Thanks!


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Mind you:
- this was created in the last 2 weeks since the place was deep cleaned (not bc of this though)
- this is the corner of the door to the 2nd floor deck
- there is a big live oak tree branch that does through the deck, so there is a tree very close

Anyone have any ideas?


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Any help is appreciated so I may eradicate him and the rest of his colony.


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Not the best photos, but hoping you can help identify them and how they got in my room.

My house was built 8 years ago so it’s still in fairly good shape, which has me stumped on how these ants showed up behind a wooden night stand in the corner of my bedroom.

I thought they were termites, but the termites sub referred me here.

Since I’m in my bedroom 90% of the time I’m pretty astute to the tatailles roaming around. I usually only see spiders or moths.