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[ZTYguy]

I know its been rather cold and its throughing me off my whole system but does anyone have an idea where camponotus will be flying and aprox dates.  Hoping to catch some us-ca02 this year so thanks for any responses. I get if this is too outlandish of a request.

[ZTYguy]

I get that. I am hoping to go out to trabuco or the Santa ana mountains later this month once it warms up to get some queens hopefully. I wish there were camponotus where i live.

[cocdeshijie]

go out next warm night

[ZTYguy]

ok. what would you consider warm. 

[BugFinder]

go out next warm night

do you recommend using a black light and a sheet to catch camponotous?

[ZTYguy]

I’ve never used the black light method on them cause I’ve never had them at my house or in a few mile radius from my house.

[Kaelwizard]

 

go out next warm night

do you recommend using a black light and a sheet to catch camponotous?

 

Not sure about in Cali, but here they fly when it is too light out for a black light to be of any use.

[ZTYguy]

 

I’ve never used the black light method on them cause I’ve never had them at my house or in a few mile radius from my house.

damn, you checked every part of land? warm is considered 75f and they fly at night.

 

Well. i do scope out the area around my little neighborhood but never have i found a single Camponotus colony. Also i didn't know what people classified as warm cause i'm used to my native ants later in the season flying whenever.

[ZTYguy]

 

 

 

I’ve never used the black light method on them cause I’ve never had them at my house or in a few mile radius from my house.

damn, you checked every part of land? warm is considered 75f and they fly at night.

 

Well. i do scope out the area around my little neighborhood but never have i found a single Camponotus colony. Also i didn't know what people classified as warm cause i'm used to my native ants later in the season flying whenever.

 

ah, if you havent blacklighted in summer, you should try it! One of my friends caught a lot of queens, he didn't know was around him.

 

I geuss ill have to try it out.

[ZTYguy]

So i've been looking at places to go and i am convinced that by end of the month i'll be able to go up to Trabuco Canyon.

[BrandonM]

It’s starting to look like Spring for some in SoCal. Caught this couple on my walk about 30 min ago. Sunny and 73 degrees F.


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[Kaelwizard]

Well that's nice. 

[NickAnter]

Camponotus in Coastal Southern California fly at night. At higher elevation areas they will fly in the earlier evening.

 

However, no matter when they fly, it is best to look at night, as that is when they all come out to search for founding chambers, or continue digging them.

Edited by NickAnter, March 18 2021 - 11:54 AM.

[BugFinder]

Camponotus in Coastal Southern California fly at night. At higher elevation areas they will fly in the earlier evening.

 

However, no matter when they fly, it is best to look at night, as that is when they all come out to search for founding chambers, or continue digging them.

 

So when you say look for them at night, do you mean out hunting for them, or using a light trap?

[Kaelwizard]

 

Camponotus in Coastal Southern California fly at night. At higher elevation areas they will fly in the earlier evening.

 

However, no matter when they fly, it is best to look at night, as that is when they all come out to search for founding chambers, or continue digging them.

 

So when you say look for them at night, do you mean out hunting for them, or using a light trap?

 

I think you are overthinking this a little. Just look for them however you can, as both ways are probably fine.

[BugFinder]

 

 

Camponotus in Coastal Southern California fly at night. At higher elevation areas they will fly in the earlier evening.

 

However, no matter when they fly, it is best to look at night, as that is when they all come out to search for founding chambers, or continue digging them.

 

So when you say look for them at night, do you mean out hunting for them, or using a light trap?

 

I think you are overthinking this a little. Just look for them however you can, as both ways are probably fine.

 

 

lol.  I wasn't over thinking it, I was asking you to clarify what you meant lol.  It's helpful to understand exactly what a person is trying to say, instead of trying to guess.

[Kaelwizard]

 

 

 

Camponotus in Coastal Southern California fly at night. At higher elevation areas they will fly in the earlier evening.

 

However, no matter when they fly, it is best to look at night, as that is when they all come out to search for founding chambers, or continue digging them.

 

So when you say look for them at night, do you mean out hunting for them, or using a light trap?

 

I think you are overthinking this a little. Just look for them however you can, as both ways are probably fine.

 

 

lol.  I wasn't over thinking it, I was asking you to clarify what you meant lol.  It's helpful to understand exactly what a person is trying to say, instead of trying to guess.

 

I wasn't the one who said to look at night, it was NickAnter. I will say that at night a black light would probably be the easiest way to find them, as looking for queens in the dark would be pretty challenging. My point was to do whatever you can.