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Queen Ant Spotting/Mating Chart

Started By dspdrew , Dec 17 2013 12:41 PM
anting mating queens swarming alates mating flight nuptial flight

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#1601 Offline ZTYguy - Posted March 25 2022 - 6:26 PM

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Species: Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus sansabeanus, Camponotus quercicola, Camponotus clarithorax, Liometopum occidentale
Location: Newhall, CA
Date: 3-24-22
Time: 10:45-12:00 pm
Temperature: 65
Humidity:
Wind: Slight breeze
Rain: None for over a week

 
C. quercicola or C. laevigatus?

Quercicola but aren’t the the same or is quercicola now laevigatus
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#1602 Offline Somethinghmm - Posted March 25 2022 - 7:05 PM

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Species: Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus sansabeanus, Camponotus quercicola, Camponotus clarithorax, Liometopum occidentale
Location: Newhall, CA
Date: 3-24-22
Time: 10:45-12:00 pm
Temperature: 65
Humidity:
Wind: Slight breeze
Rain: None for over a week

 
C. quercicola or C. laevigatus?

Quercicola but aren’t the the same or is quercicola now laevigatus

 

Former quercicola are now laevigatus. What we called laevigatus before is now laevissimus.

 

C. laevissimus have distinct, white, and plentiful hairs on their gaster as opposed to C. laevigatus, which are basically bald


#1603 Offline ZTYguy - Posted March 25 2022 - 7:48 PM

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Oh yeah it’s quercicola/laevigatus
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#1604 Offline dspdrew - Posted March 26 2022 - 6:49 AM

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Species: Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus sansabeanus, Camponotus quercicola, Camponotus clarithorax, Liometopum occidentale
Location: Newhall, CA
Date: 3-24-22
Time: 10:45-12:00 pm
Temperature: 65
Humidity:
Wind: Slight breeze
Rain: None for over a week

 
C. quercicola or C. laevigatus?

Quercicola but aren’t the the same or is quercicola now laevigatus

 

Former quercicola are now laevigatus. What we called laevigatus before is now laevissimus.

 

C. laevissimus have distinct, white, and plentiful hairs on their gaster as opposed to C. laevigatus, which are basically bald

 

 

Yes. That's why I was asking. We might as well start using the new names as much as possible.


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#1605 Offline AntsLA-1 - Posted March 26 2022 - 6:50 AM

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Species: Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus sansabeanus, Camponotus quercicola, Camponotus clarithorax, Liometopum occidentale
Location: Newhall, CA
Date: 3-24-22
Time: 10:45-12:00 pm
Temperature: 65
Humidity:
Wind: Slight breeze
Rain: None for over a week

Were these caught at Whitney Canyon?


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#1606 Offline ZTYguy - Posted March 26 2022 - 6:54 AM

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Species: Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus sansabeanus, Camponotus quercicola, Camponotus clarithorax, Liometopum occidentale
Location: Newhall, CA
Date: 3-24-22
Time: 10:45-12:00 pm
Temperature: 65
Humidity:
Wind: Slight breeze
Rain: None for over a week

Were these caught at Whitney Canyon?

Yes
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Reason: Myrmecia

#1607 Offline dspdrew - Posted March 26 2022 - 7:49 AM

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Species: Camponotus us-ca02, C. vicinus (smaller low-elevation variety), Liometopum occidentale
Location: Cleveland National Forest, Lake Elsinore, California
Date: 3-24-2021
Time: 8:00 PM
Temperature: 65 F
Humidity: 35%
Wind: None
Rain: Recent light rain

Species: Camponotus us-ca02, C. vicinus (smaller low-elevation variety)
Location: Cleveland National Forest, Lake Elsinore, California
Date: 3-25-2021
Time: 9:00 PM
Temperature: 66 F
Humidity: 35%
Wind: None
Rain: Recent light rain


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#1608 Offline ZTYguy - Posted March 26 2022 - 11:20 PM

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Species: Camponotus clarithorax, Camponotus semitestaceus, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus essigi, Camponotus laevigatus (formerly quercicola)
Location: Whitney Canyon, Newhall, California
Date: 3-26-2022
Time: 10:30-12:00 PM
Temperature: 63-56
Humidity:
Wind: slight breeze
Rain: None


Edited by ZTYguy, March 27 2022 - 1:26 PM.

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#1609 Offline ZTYguy - Posted March 27 2022 - 1:29 PM

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After further IDing the “sansabeanus” found at Whitney Canyon Park are actually “semitestaceus”


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#1610 Offline ryanger - Posted March 28 2022 - 6:52 PM

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Wow this thread started in 2013! That’s so cool
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#1611 Offline AntsCali098 - Posted April 2 2022 - 10:56 AM

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Think any gonna fly today in SoCal? It just rained

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#1612 Offline ZTYguy - Posted April 2 2022 - 1:04 PM

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Go to the desert.
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#1613 Offline AntsCali098 - Posted April 2 2022 - 1:10 PM

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Go to the desert.

Huh idk if I can do that but maybe


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#1614 Offline ZTYguy - Posted April 2 2022 - 1:14 PM

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Go to the desert.

Huh idk if I can do that but maybe

Most Camponotus have flown already so you probably won’t have much luck with them but hopefully in like a month Pogonomyrmex should start flying. Probably mid may you’ll see some californicus.
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#1615 Offline AntsCali098 - Posted April 7 2022 - 9:20 AM

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They'll be flights today in socal, for anyone wondering.


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#1616 Offline AntsLA-1 - Posted April 9 2022 - 6:42 AM

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I might go look for Camponotus today, especially since its this hot out.


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#1617 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted April 9 2022 - 11:33 AM

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Species: Camponotus maritimus, Camponotus hyatti, Camponotus clarithorax, Liometopum occidentale
Location: Cupertino, California

Date: 4-8-2022

Time: 9:00 PM
Temperature: High of 95F
Humidity:
Rain: None


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#1618 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted April 11 2022 - 8:05 PM

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Species: Odontomachus rixosus, Camponotus parius, Camponotus cf. irritans, Camponotus cf. albosparsus, Pheidole cf. noda, Nylanderia cf. kraepelini, Solenopsis geminata, Iridomyrmex anceps, Erromyrma latinodis, Crematogaster cf. decamera
Location: Mentakab, Pahang, Malaysia

Date: 4-10-2022

Time: 11:00 PM
Temperature: Cool, at around 25C/77F
Humidity:
Rain: Torrential rain the day before


That was a very good day for me because I finally found Camponotus  :D


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#1619 Offline Leptomyrmx - Posted April 11 2022 - 9:51 PM

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Species: Acropyga sp.

Location: Lugarno, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Date: 11/04/2022 (11 May, not 4 November)

Time: 3:00 pm

Temperature: 23C

Humidity: 70%

Rain: There was some about 2 days ago.


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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)

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Species: Camponotus clarithorax, Camponotus semitestaceus, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus essigi, Camponotus laevigatus (formerly quercicola)
Location: Whitney Canyon, Newhall, California
Date: 3-26-2022
Time: 10:30-12:00 PM
Temperature: 63-56
Humidity:
Wind: slight breeze
Rain: None

nice finds :)   i wish the ants here would fly but we go snow today  :*(


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