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[Ants4fun]

I stepped outside this afternoon at around five. It was nice out, but it had been cool, and rained, the past week. I looked over and saw lots of lasius neoniger alates. At first I though someone just lifted up a rock that had a colony inderneath, when suddenly they where all over. I drove back to my house, and on the way home, there where millions of alates fluttering through the sky. It was heaven. I had dreamed about the grand Lasius neoniger flights, but I had never experienced one! I limited myself to 54 queens. I in groups of 25 (1) 6(1) 3 (1) 2 (1) and 1 (18) two where especially yellow, and possibly lasius flavus. I put them two by themselves. It was really cold for August, which must have triggered their flights. Keep on the look out! As Mikey Bustos would say, Lasius love is in the air!

Edited by Ants4fun, August 25 2015 - 7:19 PM.

[Nes187]

Wow 54 good catch

[William. T]

I stepped outside this afternoon at around five. It was nice out, but it had been cool, and rained, the past week. I looked over and saw lots of lasius neoniger alates. At first I though someone just lifted up a rock that had a colony inderneath, when suddenly they where all over. I drove back to my house, and on the way home, there where millions of alates fluttering through the sky. It was heaven. I had dreamed about the grand Lasius neoniger flights, but I had never experienced one! I limited myself to 54 queens. I in groups of 25 (1) 6(1) 3 (1) 2 (1) and 1 (18) two where especially yellow, and possibly lasius flavus. I put them two by themselves. It was really cold for August, which must have triggered their flights. Keep on the look out! As Mikey Bustos would say, Lasius love is in the air!

Make sure you don't take too many!

[Ants4fun]

I know no such thing!

[William. T]

I know no such thing!

Well....... just leave some for the rest of us.

Edited by William. T, August 26 2015 - 1:31 PM.

[James C. Trager]

You forgot to mention where you saw this, Ants4Fun. (South Dakota?)

 

Yes, the flights are starting up there in the Northern Plains, but will be a few weeks away down here in Missouri, and later still in the southern part of their range. I've seen them fly as late as the end of November in northern Florida.

[Ants4fun]

Yes, in Sioux Falls, SD.