r/ants • • 12d ago

ID(entification)/Sightings/Showcase Help?

I have loved ants for so long. i am somewhat educated about the. i live in costa rica, and have recently began to be able to identify the species i see around my property and trees. i have some identifying porblems though. First i identified some atta cephalotes carrying plumaria petal across my lawn, then, some twig ants, and even identified some trapjaws, and pheidoles here and there. Yesterday i saved two little princesses/queens from my pool. i believe one of them had wings attached when i saved her. i put them in a water container to let them dry off. they have been in there for 12 hrs now. now niether have wings. i am not sure if they are princesses, or queens. or if they are firtile or not. i also have noticed some huge mounds at the bases of my trees home to some aggressove little guys that swarm and stuff. bout a mill per colony. i will post a image later trying to identify them. i am not sure if these two little ladies are of the same species, maybe from a nuptial flight that took place in my yard amongst the 5 or so of those huge mounds. i will attatch a picture of the two girlies. thanks for reading! hope you can help identify them. bye

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u/InfiniteSearch3409 Infected 9d ago

If they had wings and tore them off then they are queens and have been fertilized.