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Started By gcsnelling , May 7 2020 3:26 PM

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#1 Offline gcsnelling - Posted May 7 2020 - 3:26 PM

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Just what Southern California needs. Although this is just the wikipedia page for the species there is a paper in the works regarding the discovery of this species in So. Cal. Almost certainly as a result or released or escaped pets.

 

https://en.wikipedia...iomantis_caffra


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#2 Offline dspdrew - Posted May 7 2020 - 4:59 PM

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Just what Southern California needs. Although this is just the wikipedia page for the species there is a paper in the works regarding the discovery of this species in So. Cal. Almost certainly as a result or released or escaped pets.

 

https://en.wikipedia...iomantis_caffra

 

Is there an article or something explaining what I think you're suggesting? Did you post the wrong link?


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#3 Offline gcsnelling - Posted May 7 2020 - 5:10 PM

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No, the link is just an explanation of the species, there is an article coming in the near future explaining the find.


#4 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 7 2020 - 6:21 PM

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Sh*t
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#5 Offline FSTP - Posted May 7 2020 - 8:05 PM

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I bet it was Zeiss' fault.


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#6 Offline Zeiss - Posted May 7 2020 - 9:55 PM

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Just what Southern California needs. Although this is just the wikipedia page for the species there is a paper in the works regarding the discovery of this species in So. Cal. Almost certainly as a result or released or escaped pets.

 

https://en.wikipedia...iomantis_caffra

Would you be able to send me a copy of the paper in the works?  I'm interested in reading it.

 

Apparently some friends who study mantids are saying it's been seen for years in the temperate areas.

 

As someone who has been part of the mantis community, I do not know of Miomantis caffra being actively kept in the hobby.  Many think it is boring and I have not seen it available anywhere at shows or public online websites, so I do not directly think it is only the fault of hobbyists as of now.


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#7 Offline gcsnelling - Posted May 8 2020 - 2:15 AM

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I do not have access to the paper, this was just a PSA alerting folks to the apparent presence of the thing in So Cal.


#8 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 8 2020 - 2:20 AM

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It could’ve been brought in as a “beneficial insect.” Does anyone else hate that term like me? It paints the majority of insects as not-beneficial. Ants are never included in the “beneficial” club.
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#9 Offline Temperateants - Posted May 8 2020 - 6:01 AM

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It could’ve been brought in as a “beneficial insect.” Does anyone else hate that term like me? It paints the majority of insects as not-beneficial. Ants are never included in the “beneficial” club.

Honeybees are overrated and ants are pollinators. 


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#10 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted May 8 2020 - 6:42 AM

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 Ants are never included in the “beneficial” club.

Ants are crucial and beneficial to their natural environments, yet destructive anywhere else.


"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

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Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

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