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[LowQualityAnts]

Where I live the temperature is now around 70-65 degrees usually. Is there still a chance that ant species like myrmica or aphenogaster are flying? If not where could I find ants that hibernate before making a colony?

[ANTdrew]

Here in Virginia, only parasitic Lasius still fly this time of year.

[LowQualityAnts]

Ok thanks. I think i have some lasius ants in my yard so if I find L. claviger or something like that i should be fine.

[Manitobant]

Solenopsis invicta and other invasives are also flying still, although they fly year-round.

[LowQualityAnts]

I think i saw a bunch of S. Geminata alates in a some nest a few days ago, but I'm on vacation so i can't collect them .

Edit: they might have been invicta.

Edited by LowQualityAnts, November 24 2022 - 6:37 PM.

[Flu1d]

This post is relevant to me, as I am in the Southeast. As someone just getting into ant keeping (no colony yet), I assumed I either had to dig a nest or wait a whole year to get into it (or buy a queen/colony).. There are queens still flying? I'm not intereated in Invicta, but would that mean, of invasives are flying, would pheidole obscurithorax be flying here in Floroda, since its invasive? there's so many pheidole colonies in my yard, it would be neat if I could still catch one without having to dig and risk hurting a queen

[ANTdrew]

Parasitic Lasius ants are still flying here in Virginia. Those are a bit tricky for a beginner, though.

[LowQualityAnts]

If you found a lasius claviger colony, couldn't you just give the queen other lasius claviger workers or brood?

[benxixi]

Solenopsis invicta and other invasives are also flying still, although they fly year-round.

Lol