Hi, I'm a high school student in Maryland looking to try to get into this hobby. I don't have any colonies right now but I'm checking everyday for nuptial flights!
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Posted June 11 2015 - 12:06 PM
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Welcome! Good luck!
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Posted June 11 2015 - 12:37 PM
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Posted June 11 2015 - 7:38 PM
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Just 6 hours after posting this, I saw a queen ant buzzing around inside my house. Looks like a Camponotus castaneus. I don't have a test tube right now so I'm going to put her in a small tupperware container with wet cotton overnight.
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Posted June 12 2015 - 3:48 AM
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Finally! A fellow Marylander! I live in Howard County. Where are you form? We could go anting.
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Species I keep:
1 Lasius cf. Neoniger 30 workers
1 Camponotus sp. 15 workers
20 Tetramorium SpE 30 workers
1 T. Sessile 200 workers
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Posted June 14 2015 - 7:43 PM
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Welcome! Sorta from close to where I am from (New Jersey). June and July are great for nuptial flights in the Mid-Atlantic. If you want easy-to-raise Tetramorium, check any swimming pool in the morning ... you'll be bound to find at least one queen!
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Posted June 16 2015 - 2:17 PM
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Just 6 hours after posting this, I saw a queen ant buzzing around inside my house. Looks like a Camponotus castaneus. I don't have a test tube right now so I'm going to put her in a small tupperware container with wet cotton overnight.
No wonder the state you live in is called 'Merry Land.' Welcome from Fresno, CA.
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Posted June 16 2015 - 3:47 PM
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Just 6 hours after posting this, I saw a queen ant buzzing around inside my house. Looks like a Camponotus castaneus. I don't have a test tube right now so I'm going to put her in a small tupperware container with wet cotton overnight.
No wonder the state you live in is called 'Merry Land.' Welcome from Fresno, CA.
"Merry Land?" Hah! It's Merry when you are off on certain days, but not if you are not. You either strike it rally rich, or not at all.
Species I keep:
1 Lasius cf. Neoniger 30 workers
1 Camponotus sp. 15 workers
20 Tetramorium SpE 30 workers
1 T. Sessile 200 workers
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They say the best thing about living in Fresno, CA is "getting out of town." And Bakersfield, which is about 2 hours away, has been called "a bathroom stop on the way to bigger and better things." Our state capitol is in Sacramento, and that would explain why we have a lot of hot air in the Central Valley. 
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Posted August 8 2015 - 2:00 PM
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Hello, get out to backyards and parks and start turning over rocks and logs etc. and be ready with a container or ziplock bag - always go for the queen first, if you see more than one queen just get one or two and leave some, then get pupae, larvae and eggs, and workers and voila- You have a colony! Make an observation nest to suit what you have. Or you may just find a queen and maybe brood - collect both, you can make a smaller suitable container for her to get to the colony stage and then move to a bigger one. Be alert for mated (wingless) queens as you walk around, on pavement edges etc. and always have a container ready to go (film canister of snack ziplock bag. Good Luck Bob
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Posted September 19 2016 - 10:03 AM
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I'm from Maryland too (DC area)!
Just joined to forum.
Any luck finding queens recently? I am searching but having no luck.
Just joined to forum.
Any luck finding queens recently? I am searching but having no luck.
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