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is this even an ant?

Started By NancyZamora4991 , Aug 27 2021 4:15 PM

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#21 Offline eea - Posted August 27 2021 - 8:18 PM

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seems these termites are having nuptial flights, i saw 2 yesterday


#22 Offline NancyZamora4991 - Posted August 27 2021 - 8:44 PM

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ummmmmmmmmmmmm this is very not good I left them in a little container and they disappeared!!! will they go into our walls and eat our wood!?!?!?!


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#23 Offline eea - Posted August 27 2021 - 8:48 PM

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ummmmmmmmmmmmm this is very not good I left them in a little container and they disappeared!!! will they go into our walls and eat our wood!?!?!?!

hope not  :(


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#24 Offline NancyZamora4991 - Posted August 27 2021 - 8:49 PM

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I'm freaking out rn! :o  %)  :blink:


#25 Offline eea - Posted August 27 2021 - 8:53 PM

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I'm freaking out rn! :o  %)  :blink:

well if you're lucky they might be the same gender or they lost each other


#26 Offline JamesJohnson - Posted August 27 2021 - 9:35 PM

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Incisitermes minor, most likely.


How did you learn to ID so many species? Are you an Entomologist?

 

They're the only termites in California whose reproductives have red heads, so they're pretty easy to identify.

 

there were tons of these everywhere and I caught two I was thinking a termite

They flew here recently? Interesting. In the Sierra Nevadas they flew months ago, so a little odd they would fly later here. Maybe it has to do with wood here being the driest out of any part of the year from now until winter when it starts raining. 


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#27 Offline ANTdrew - Posted August 28 2021 - 2:28 AM

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Plot twist!!!
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#28 Offline futurebird - Posted August 28 2021 - 5:47 AM

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They may not have gone far. Try to think like a horny pair of termites. You're going to look for a dark moist wooden place. I hope you can find them. 


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#29 Offline NancyZamora4991 - Posted August 28 2021 - 7:47 AM

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there is a hole in our wall that leads inside the walls right next to the cup


#30 Offline NickAnter - Posted August 28 2021 - 12:44 PM

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Incisitermes minor, most likely.


How did you learn to ID so many species? Are you an Entomologist?

 

Well I have a pretty good memory, and I spend, and have spent, many, many hours on here and the internet in general researching ants and termites, and as someone who has found this species before, I can recognize them.


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). 

#31 Offline Idontexist - Posted November 27 2021 - 11:43 AM

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I have both in a little cup and I think they are following each other

termites do have kings. I think they wanna mate. They will found colonies together

#32 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted November 27 2021 - 8:16 PM

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I have both in a little cup and I think they are following each other

termites do have kings. I think they wanna mate. They will found colonies together
This was answered a while ago.
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#33 Offline PaigeX - Posted November 28 2021 - 2:05 AM

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We have termites everywhere here and yea their little mating dance is cute.


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#34 Offline Leptomyrmx - Posted November 29 2021 - 12:00 AM

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Yeah the ants get a good feast after a termite nuptial night 3:)  hee hee I'm so evil

I'm also trying to start a termite colony, I have a 2 pairs (I think) right now.

I'll probably just use them as feeders :B


Edited by Leptomyrmx, November 29 2021 - 12:01 AM.

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My Ants:

Colonies: Camponotus humilior 1w, Opisthopsis rufithorax 11w, Aphaenogaster longiceps ~5w, Pheidole sp. ~235w ~15m, Iridomyrmex sp. 2q 1w, Brachyponera lutea 6w, Crematogaster sp. ~20w, Podomyrma sp. 1w

Queens: Polyrhachis cf. robinsoni, Polyrhachis (Campomyrma) sp. (likely infertile)

Previously Kept: Colobopsis gasseri, Technomyrmex sp., Rhytidoponera victorae, Nylanderia cf. rosae, Myrmecia brevinoda/forficata, Polyrhachis australis, Solenopsis/Monomorium

Key: Q = Queen, W = Worker, M = Major

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