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Tetramorium mating flight

Started By Roachant , Jun 27 2016 5:44 AM

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#1 Offline Roachant - Posted June 27 2016 - 5:44 AM

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Hi all,
For those who are interested, a tetramorium species , likely caespitum, had a mating flight on June, 25th during the night in the Montreal, Quebec area.

Edited by Roachant, June 27 2016 - 5:50 AM.

#2 Offline sgheaton - Posted June 27 2016 - 5:47 AM

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Can you explain what you mean by this a bit? ALL of the species reacts? Certain parts of the nation? I've been finding this species in my yard/area of Colorado with one fresh queen being captured on the 25th. Coincidence or did I just time it correctly?

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#3 Offline Roachant - Posted June 27 2016 - 5:52 AM

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Oops, I just changed it mentioning where it happened.
I'm not sure if it is a nationwide thing, if so then that would raise some interesting questions about the triggers for a mating flight.

#4 Offline Batspiderfish - Posted June 27 2016 - 10:03 AM

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I'm probably not the only one working on this, but it's about time we had a regional nuptial flight chart.

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#5 Offline Loops117 - Posted June 27 2016 - 12:48 PM

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I'm probably not the only one working on this, but it's about time we had a regional nuptial flight chart.

http://www.formicult...t-mating-chart/

#6 Offline WeatherAnt - Posted June 27 2016 - 9:28 PM

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Can you explain what you mean by this a bit? ALL of the species reacts? Certain parts of the nation? I've been finding this species in my yard/area of Colorado with one fresh queen being captured on the 25th. Coincidence or did I just time it correctly?

They flew on the west coast too, about the same time!