It seems like I've seen many places say that all the queens of a species fly at the same time. But it seems I've also read that there will be multiple flights per year. How exactly does that work?
I want to catch an L. Niger queen, and just saw someone from here in the Netherlands say that the queens were flying yesterday. They were in the very south of NL, I'm in the north. I haven't seen a single queen, and I even had a blacklight on in my yard for a couple hours last night. Is it likely that they all fly at once...in different times in different regions? Just curious how this all works
Yea usually that's how it works. And in tropical areas queens usually fly year round after rains.
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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)
Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes):
★ Camponotus irritans inferior, ★ Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, ★ Nylanderia sp., ★ Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), ★ Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (
Myrma)
cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly
Zatapinoma)
Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.
