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Massachusetts Anting Thread

Started By Nathant2131 , Mar 22 2017 12:43 PM
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#601 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted July 9 2017 - 7:21 AM

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Holy Guacamole! Right after a typed that previous comment I found a Tetramorium queen hiding in my North American Garden Insects book! Check for queens!


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#602 Offline noebl1 - Posted July 10 2017 - 5:31 PM

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Huge Temnothorax flight going on right *now* and finally saw males, and they are everywhere.  Hard to find females as so many males.


#603 Offline noebl1 - Posted July 10 2017 - 5:39 PM

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I tried to get a pic but the phone died... everywhere there's reflective surfaces I see males at a 20:1 ratio to females.  Picking them off clothes and skin.  


#604 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted July 10 2017 - 5:47 PM

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I can't find any Temnothorax... I think I missed the flight...

 

Also, in about a month check for C. Americanus flights! I found some alate pupae!


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#605 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted July 10 2017 - 5:54 PM

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Spent about an hour outside and didn't see anything tonight; only a lone termite alate. :(

Termite alate? Are they still flying? I need termites

This might be a bit late


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100+ sea squirts
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#606 Offline noebl1 - Posted July 10 2017 - 6:14 PM

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Caught 13 in about 30mins... ran out of test tubes so had to double some of them up.  Males sometimes 15-20+ on the posts of our deck fighting for space.  Makes me wonder if the handful I caught a week ago were fertile as didn't see any males, yet there were males literally everywhere tonight.

 

I also realized I'm virtually out of cotton for test tubes as replacement from Amazon hasn't come in yet. Guess I'll be hitting up CVS at work tomorrow.    *Horrible* time to run out of cotton balls.


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#607 Offline noebl1 - Posted July 10 2017 - 6:50 PM

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Ok tried to get a couple pics... but in the dark with a flashlight in one hand, doesn't come out to well.  Caught a few more before giving up for tonight.  Looks like the males in this species sit and wait for the females to show up.  Pretty much every tiny dark dot except for a few is a male Temnothorax:

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EDIT:  Also saw them on any reflecting surface, including on our recycle bin.  However direct on lights and on white surfaces there were hundreds.


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#608 Offline ctantkeeper - Posted July 10 2017 - 11:32 PM

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Spent about an hour outside and didn't see anything tonight; only a lone termite alate. :(

Termite alate? Are they still flying? I need termites

This might be a bit late

 

From my own personal experience, It seems as though you are super late. I told you that we only have one species of termite in CT that can only be harvested for an extremely short window of time.


#609 Offline Aquaexploder - Posted July 11 2017 - 10:22 AM

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Tetramorium flew right after the rain stopped.

#610 Offline zkublin - Posted July 11 2017 - 10:33 AM

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Tetramorium flew right after the rain stopped.

Really?  I was just out there during my lunch and didn't find anything :(


Tetramorium flew right after the rain stopped.

Really?  I was just out there during my lunch and didn't find anything :(


#611 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted July 11 2017 - 11:15 AM

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Spent about an hour outside and didn't see anything tonight; only a lone termite alate. :(

Termite alate? Are they still flying? I need termites

This might be a bit late

 

From my own personal experience, It seems as though you are super late. I told you that we only have one species of termite in CT that can only be harvested for an extremely short window of time.

 

I know but noeb1 saw one apparently. Maybe it was a dealate?
I also found a squished anergates queen.


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#612 Offline noebl1 - Posted July 11 2017 - 11:26 AM

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I've seen all of 2 termite alates all season. I usually see maybe 2-5 a season.  Like a lot of other night fliers, they seem to be indirectly attracted to lights.  I've never find them on lights, but will go to a wall/window that's being illuminated.


#613 Offline Aquaexploder - Posted July 11 2017 - 1:33 PM

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Tetramorium flew right after the rain stopped.

Really?  I was just out there during my lunch and didn't find anything :(

Tetramorium flew right after the rain stopped.

Really?  I was just out there during my lunch and didn't find anything :(

Yup, I found two dealates and a drone.

#614 Offline noebl1 - Posted July 11 2017 - 5:29 PM

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Just poked my head outside for a minute and saw Temnothorax alates on the deck, so they are flying.  Not sure how large of a flight yet as still entertaining a toddler who's finally winding down.


#615 Offline noebl1 - Posted July 11 2017 - 6:14 PM

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So tonight is pretty much all male alates; only saw 3 or 4 female alate/dealates compared to yesterday.  I think there may be more males tonight than last night:

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#616 Offline ctantkeeper - Posted July 12 2017 - 9:49 AM

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A gigantic Tetramorium sp.e Flight took place last night in CT!!!!!


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#617 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted July 12 2017 - 10:24 AM

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Found a bunch of Tetra queens this morning, along with a formica queen and 2 temnothorax queens. Also found an Aphaenogaster queen under some huge rocks.


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Aholehole fish
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Sea Fan Worm
100+ sea squirts
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#618 Offline zkublin - Posted July 12 2017 - 10:58 AM

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Found a bunch of Tetra queens this morning, along with a formica queen and 2 temnothorax queens. Also found an Aphaenogaster queen under some huge rocks.

 

 

A gigantic Tetramorium sp.e Flight took place last night in CT!!!!!

Hopefully that means there will be a large flight in MA within the next few days.  Still have not caught any live tetra queens this year.  Yesterday I found a nest with aliates very close to the entrance (4 or 5 of them were visible when I flipped the stone over) so it looks like there are still some flights to come in MA.


#619 Offline akaant - Posted July 12 2017 - 5:36 PM

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Had a large Tetramorium flight this morning. I seen many queens and several males stuck in the condensation on the roof of several cars. 


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#620 Offline ctantkeeper - Posted July 14 2017 - 12:30 PM

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Spotted a Tapinoma sessile queen alate in a pool today.


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