Our myrmecocystus placodops queens are ready for their forever homes!

Ants in Santander region of Colombia destroying avocado tree 🤔

Found this dude(?) on my car, absolute beast of a thing

And yes I know they hurt, and yes I know this is stupid, but I needed to get it off my car before I drive home from work and he(she?) Just walked onto my hand after checking me out for 10seconds

Hey, wondering what type of ant colony this is since i want to get into ant keeping and want to find a beginner friendly colony that is local to my environment. Thanks for checking and hyped to get into any keeping

I've been documenting this massive 1m diameter stump for a few weeks now. First, I fell in love with the acrobat ants that were starting a new colony in it, then it was the Black Garden ants... but as I zoomed in closer, I realized there's a third colony a Tetramorium colony that lives beneath the stump... Never thought just one object in my garden can tell so many stories. Right now I'm on a mission exploring the inside of the stump with an endoscope camera....💥

I traced an old leaking window to bottom of walls (spray foamed) found a colony it smaller ants and sprayed it with raid a few days ago. Been seeing/saw some winged ants and bigger ants like this still. Not many but the odd one. Been two days now just monitoring trying to let wall dry out before I re foam with ridgid foam. Looks like the original spray foam didn't cure (sprayer says may have been wet/frozen area at time of spraying)

Sorry for the bad pictures, this is as good as I could get 😅

Edit: I live in Maryland in the US btw

Its a 15cm x 15cm ant nest, with 16mm x 16mm holes for acrylic tubes.
I dont really know much about antkeeping, so I would really appreciate any advice and improvements for the nest.

Thought it was a termite because its so big but has small waist and long legs like ants but im in southern California we usually have tiny ants help !

She measures at approximately 11-12 mm. She shed her wings on my arm assuming after her nuptial flight therefore I’d imagine she must be a queen so I put her in a test tube set up shortly afterward.

I recently caught an identical one a month prior in the same manner but didn’t know how to properly care for her so she unfortunately died. This time I took the proper steps to make her (and the potential queen striped carpenter ant) a sufficient set up.

From her appearance I’m guessing she’s a Camponotus castaneus (Chestnut Carpenter Ant) but from my research their queens are generally a bit longer in length, so I’m curious as to what else she could be or why she’s a bit undersized.

Any guesses would be very helpful.

I found an interest in ants a couple of months ago, and I'm trying to catch a queen. I found about 10 dead drones inside my dog's house, and now there are lots of these guys, but I'm having trouble figuring out which are major workers and which are queens

(My dog probably ate half of them already </3)

Edit: Thank you all for the help!

She measures at approximately 15 mm, found her when going through a piece of rotten wood, I thought that it was possible the lightly colored markings on the side of her thorax might be wing scars so just in case I put her in a test tube set up.

I’m thinking maybe she’s a Camponotus subbarbatus (Striped Carpenter Ant) though from my research she seems like she could be a bit bigger than they usually are so I also figured she could potentially be a Camponotus americanus. For reference I live in North East Georgia.

Any guesses would be very appreciated.

Im quite new so... are these queens or alates..? If so, what type?

So my wife took this picture the other day and told me she also saw others around the property. That’s a very large amount of ants. Why are they doing this? Is it normal?

Apologies I have no other pictures - later she went back out to see and they were gone and I was out there today and didn’t see anything like this. Thanks in advance.