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Started By The Australian nanictic , May 5 2015 3:24 AM

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#1 Offline The Australian nanictic - Posted May 5 2015 - 3:24 AM

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What traps do you guys set up to collect alates

#2 Offline Ants4fun - Posted May 5 2015 - 4:26 AM

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Mostly just black light traps. Most others won't aetack queens.

#3 Offline Crystals - Posted May 5 2015 - 8:57 AM

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I always find tonnes just wandering over my long pale grey driveway.  I walk across it a few hundred times a day going from the front yard to the back, and I find way more queens than I can ever catch.

I may go months without seeing a single queen, then then I will see hundreds.

 

I may try a blacklight trap this summer and see how it fares.  I am curious about our nocturnal fliers up here.

 

I know many people with pools find lots of alates in there.


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#4 Offline dermy - Posted May 5 2015 - 11:14 AM

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I know this isn't a method [it's in fact a method on how not to catch queens!] Don't do what I did last season, be awake from 8pm to 5-6am and not go out during the day, I never found any "Nuptial Flights" and thus had a crummy season, you don't want that trust me!


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#5 Offline The Australian nanictic - Posted May 5 2015 - 1:44 PM

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How do you setup a black light trap?

#6 Offline Ants4fun - Posted May 5 2015 - 2:00 PM

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#7 Offline The Australian nanictic - Posted May 5 2015 - 2:26 PM

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Thanks

#8 Offline Trailandstreet - Posted May 6 2015 - 1:22 AM

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Yes Crystals, pools are a good trap. I found two of my Lasius flavus only in the small baby pool, we use for our dogs to refresh.


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