Are these holes from ants digging founding chambers?
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Founding chamber holes?
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Posted May 28 2024 - 5:14 AM
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Posted May 28 2024 - 5:36 AM
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Yes.
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Posted May 28 2024 - 10:49 AM
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Hard to say, although I would lean towards no, as founding chambers are usually sealed. I would guess they are either a large colony's entrances or some other Hymenoptera, or insect in general. Turns out a lot of things make holes in the dirt - worms and arachnids are some of the other possibilities.
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Posted May 28 2024 - 10:52 AM
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Also cicadas.
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Posted May 28 2024 - 12:39 PM
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Hard to say, although I would lean towards no, as founding chambers are usually sealed. I would guess they are either a large colony's entrances or some other Hymenoptera, or insect in general. Turns out a lot of things make holes in the dirt - worms and arachnids are some of the other possibilities.
Yeah. Also, founding chambers should have small piles of dirt outside, which is what the queens dig out of the ground when constructing chambers.
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Posted May 29 2024 - 3:15 PM
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Yah personally don't think so...like the above post usually there's dirt surrounding the entrance, and the holes are smaller and more round looking. Those ones look like they may have been abandoned, if they're so big, or simply not a chamber at all. I do wonder if maybe those are Mason bee nests? Anyone know anything about those?
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Hard to say, although I would lean towards no, as founding chambers are usually sealed. I would guess they are either a large colony's entrances or some other Hymenoptera, or insect in general. Turns out a lot of things make holes in the dirt - worms and arachnids are some of the other possibilities.
Yeah weird thing is though that they are everywhere around the woods, and I mean everywhere, like every 2-5 feet there's one.
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Posted May 30 2024 - 2:11 AM
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Yeah weird thing is though that they are everywhere around the woods, and I mean everywhere, like every 2-5 feet there's one.Cicadas
Hard to say, although I would lean towards no, as founding chambers are usually sealed. I would guess they are either a large colony's entrances or some other Hymenoptera, or insect in general. Turns out a lot of things make holes in the dirt - worms and arachnids are some of the other possibilities.
Cicadas.
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Posted May 30 2024 - 2:13 AM
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Definitely cicadas
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