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Black-Lighting Public Journal

Started By CatsnAnts , May 19 2019 12:35 PM

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#21 Offline AntPhycho - Posted May 28 2019 - 8:35 PM

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Maybe try to hang your light over a large container with walls covered in barrier?  :thinking:


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#22 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted May 29 2019 - 4:41 AM

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Maybe try to hang your light over a large container with walls covered in barrier? :thinking:


I was thinking exactly that! :D I also thought about putting a tub of water under it, or a bucket and funnel.

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#23 Offline Psythe - Posted June 7 2019 - 8:30 PM

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So haven’t had any with the black light yet? Only used it twice so far?

#24 Offline AntPhycho - Posted June 7 2019 - 9:03 PM

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Yes I would love an update on these tests.  (y)


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#25 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted June 8 2019 - 3:54 AM

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I will update when I go blacklighting on “hopefully” Monday! It’s been raining and the temps haven’t been right for the last week and a half. Plus, I have to work and my parents won’t let me stay up on the previous nights of the day that I work. The weather this week doesn’t seem like it’s going to be very good either. At night, it’s going to drop into the 50’s. What do you guys recomend as a good humidity/temp to go blacklighting?

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#26 Offline Martialis - Posted June 8 2019 - 12:08 PM

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A good rule of thumb is to blacklight any night when it's above 70 and 50% humidity.  Additionally, set it up about twenty to thirty minutes before sunset. This serves to maximise time for blacklighting.


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#27 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted June 9 2019 - 3:10 AM

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Thxs!

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#28 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted June 9 2019 - 1:34 PM

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Alright, I’m heading out tonight! It just rained this morning and stopped at 2:00. It is going to stay in the low 70’s (in terms of degrees), and the humidity is 84%. Do you think I will find anything? I’m kind of hoping to maybe catch some late Camponotus flights or some early Temnothorax flights (since I know the alates are ready).

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#29 Offline Psythe - Posted June 9 2019 - 2:26 PM

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Good luck! Eager to hear how it goes.

#30 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted June 9 2019 - 6:10 PM

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No wonder there’s no bugs, these little suckers keep eating all of my business. They obviously figured out that the blacklight is a feast! :lol:



:lol: :lol:

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#31 Offline AntPhycho - Posted June 9 2019 - 7:35 PM

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No wonder there’s no bugs, these little suckers keep eating all of my business. They obviously figured out that the blacklight is a feast! :lol:



:lol: :lol:

Frog legs are good protein.  (y)


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#32 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted June 9 2019 - 7:46 PM

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No wonder there’s no bugs, these little suckers keep eating all of my business. They obviously figured out that the blacklight is a feast! :lol:
:lol: :lol:

Frog legs are good protein. (y)

I’m not that mean! :lol:

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#33 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted June 9 2019 - 7:49 PM

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I think I’m going to call it quits. It’s almost midnight and I haven’t seen anything. I’ll just take the Lasius interjectus I found earlier and be happy!
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#34 Offline Psythe - Posted June 10 2019 - 8:25 AM

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Good luck with the interjectus. Wish mine would have worked out.

#35 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted June 10 2019 - 10:17 AM

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Good luck with the interjectus. Wish mine would have worked out.


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#36 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted June 19 2019 - 5:08 PM

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Welp, I went out last night blacklighting and found a tapinoma sessile queen (I didn’t want it), and many Camponotus castaneus males. In the morning, there was a HUGE tetramorium immigrans flight, but I also didn’t really want to catch any of those. I’m heading out again tonight, in hopes of finding pheidole, colonopsis, or temnothorax. It just got done raining here, so pheidole should definitely be flying. Wish me luck! :D
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#37 Offline ponerinecat - Posted June 22 2019 - 9:38 AM

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colonopsis?


#38 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted June 22 2019 - 3:17 PM

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Yep, I didn’t find anything that night, (although I did find that Strumigenys queen in he morning :lol:) I’m going to head out again either tonight or tomorrow to see what I can find. I’m still iffy on whether or not colonopsis are in Indiana.

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#39 Offline NickAnter - Posted June 22 2019 - 3:19 PM

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Colobopsis are in Indiana. According to antmaps. They are probably just rare where you live.

Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#40 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted June 22 2019 - 3:26 PM

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Ya, probably

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