Another Brachymyrmex obscurior flight happened either 3 or 1 days ago (I forget). There's been a couple more teasings lately.
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Today was pretty interesting ant-wise.
At roughly 2:30 PM I found a Solenopsis cf. invicta winged queen wandering/flying around on a sidewalk next to a restaurant called Wrecker's (South side of the island). Minutes later I encountered a swarming colony of S. invicta roughly 25 feet away. It was really different though; There were loads more workers than alates, and I could only see female alates. (and there were only a few of them).
Fast forward 2 hours give or take, and I'm finding loads of Solenopsis cf. invicta queens (mostly dealates) under rocks and wandering around while I search the West side of the island by the beach. Some rocks even had 2-3 queens under them, and the queens were pretty much touching.:
I then saw 3 more wandering dealates in the evening. Obviously they must of flown.
20 feet away from the beach water shown in the first pic, (where there are some trees) I found about 5 Odontomachus sp. (or a similar genus like Anochetus) queens under rocks. They are super fast and really aggresive though (one even bit me when I tried holding her down with my finger for a pic, and it did not feel good) so I didn't get any good pics.
Other stuff from today:
A small queen of some sort that I found under a coconut or rock (I forget again):
I'll put up an ID thread for her.
A tiny orange alate of some sort (horrible picture):
Edited by Nathant2131, August 2 2017 - 5:39 PM.
