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#2221 Offline MojaveAnts - Posted June 16 2023 - 11:20 AM

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The search feature on this forum as well as searching YouTube works really well.



#2222 Offline Tanks - Posted June 16 2023 - 3:38 PM

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Usually during, you want to go 12-2 pm. That's when I find most. Just dig the queens with a shovel, it'll be fine. Usually, the chambers are a hole with a bit of a messy hill around it.

Ok thanks! My plans changed so I will be able to go queen catching on the day they should fly, but I will keep this in mind.One more thing, what time should I go to catch queens at? 



#2223 Offline AntsCali098 - Posted June 16 2023 - 4:01 PM

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12-2 pm, 85+ degrees

Edited by AntsCali098, June 16 2023 - 4:04 PM.

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#2224 Offline Tanks - Posted June 16 2023 - 4:45 PM

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12-2 pm, 85+ degrees

Can I go at 3:30PM-4:30PM to catch queens? Because that's when it will get to 85 degrees. From 12-2pm will only be 83, or is that good enough? Or maybe if I go at 3:30-4:30PM they will have already flew and started digging their chambers and I can just grab them while they dig, or if they already have a shallow camber than it might make it easier for me to dig the queens up? What do you guys think?


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#2225 Offline Scrixx - Posted June 17 2023 - 12:01 PM

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I went looking for gold but found queens instead. It's a sign to get back into the hobby lol :rolleyes:

 

No Pogonomyrmex flew in my area but got Formica sp., Solenopsis sp., Surprisingly caught a few Liometopum sp.? Thought they only flew at night. Also caught a small queen species that I'm not sure about.


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Keeping: Camponotus sansabeanus - C. vicinus - Formica francoeuri - Liometopum occidentale -  Pogonomyrmex californicus - P. rugosus - P. subnitidus - Solenopsis molesta - S. xyloni - Tapinoma sessile - Temnothorax sp.

Journals: Camponotus sansabeanus & C. vicinus | Pogonomyrmex californicus & P. rugosus | Solenopsis molesta & S. xyloni

Discontinued: Pogonomyrmex subnitidus


#2226 Offline AntsCali098 - Posted June 17 2023 - 12:04 PM

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Nice catches!

Pogonomrymex haven't flown here yet to my knowledge, it's just not hot enough, funny for socal.

Maybe you can post an id thread of the unidentified queen.

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#2227 Offline Tanks - Posted June 17 2023 - 6:35 PM

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Nice catches!

Pogonomrymex haven't flown here yet to my knowledge, it's just not hot enough, funny for socal.

Maybe you can post an id thread of the unidentified queen.

Pogonomyrmex flew today, I caught 25 of them


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#2228 Offline AntsCali098 - Posted June 17 2023 - 7:02 PM

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Oh damn just on a dirt trail?

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#2229 Offline Tanks - Posted June 17 2023 - 9:17 PM

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Oh damn just on a dirt trail?

Yeah, I could of caught more but it would have been a lot to manage. It was also the first colony along the trail so I probably could have caught way more.



#2230 Offline AntsCali098 - Posted June 17 2023 - 10:26 PM

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Does anyone know if they'll fly again? Didn't expect them at all today.

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#2231 Offline MojaveAnts - Posted June 20 2023 - 11:31 AM

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Weird.. the recent rains weren't even technically Monsoon either as they were with a cold front coming from the Northern pressure and not off the West with warmth like a true Monsoon summer precipitation. For the Mojave desert area anyways. More of a slow long non-stormy cold rain days vs. quick fast thunder-lightning packed downpours.



#2232 Offline AntObserver - Posted June 23 2023 - 11:02 AM

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I'm gonna go searching for queens around Mescal Wildlife Sanctuary, Llano, Little Rock area on July 1st or 2nd. It’s been an unusual wet year but now it’s warming up quick so hopefully I’ll have some luck!

#2233 Offline 100lols - Posted June 25 2023 - 12:27 PM

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Anting today at Daley Ranch near Escondido, CA. Wish me luck!

#2234 Offline Tanks - Posted June 28 2023 - 11:45 AM

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When and where do you guys catch your Camponotus queens in SoCal? I'm looking into catching larger species like CA 02 or vicinus for next time they fly.



#2235 Offline dspdrew - Posted June 28 2023 - 3:35 PM

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When and where do you guys catch your campo queens in SoCal? I'm looking into catching larger species like CA 02 or vicinus for next time they fly.

Check the mountains in early spring.



#2236 Offline Tanks - Posted June 28 2023 - 4:33 PM

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When and where do you guys catch your Camponotus queens in SoCal? I'm looking into catching larger species like CA 02 or vicinus for next time they fly.

Check the mountains in early spring.

 

Which mountains is there like a specific mountain that's best. Are their flights triggered by rain? Also I sent you a dm about buying somthing from your shop.


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#2237 Offline AntsCali098 - Posted June 28 2023 - 5:00 PM

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When and where do you guys catch your Camponotus queens in SoCal? I'm looking into catching larger species like CA 02 or vicinus for next time they fly.

Check the mountains in early spring.
Which mountains is there like a specific mountain that's best. Are their flights triggered by rain? Also I sent you a dm about buying somthing from your shop.
Not really, just go to any forest or mountain. I found a bunch on a small heat spike near Cleveland national Forest.

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#2238 Offline FinWins - Posted June 29 2023 - 1:06 PM

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When is the best time to go looking for stigmatomma pallipes?


I keep: C. modoc, C. sansabeanus  :D, C. maritimus, Formica argentea, M. mexicanus  :D, Odontomachus brunneus :D, Pogonomyrmex californicus, Pogonomyrmex rugosus, 

 


#2239 Offline ReignofRage - Posted June 29 2023 - 7:51 PM

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Flights occur in mid- to late-summer, if that's what you mean. Otherwise, it doesn't particularly matter what time of year you search for colonies.



#2240 Offline Tanks - Posted June 29 2023 - 9:30 PM

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So on Saturday it's going to be 95 degrees out at a spot I might go anting at. I looked on Inaturalist and there are a a good amount of different sightings of species like Myrecoctstus wheeleri, Pogonomyrmex californicus  (already caught a enough of them), fusca group Formica, molesta group Solenopsis, Solenopsis xyloni, some sorta temnothorax, and dorymyrmex bicolor. What of these species do you guys think will fly on saturday?


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