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NUPTIAL FLIGHT CRAZY HERE IN MD!!

Started By MegaMyrmex , Sep 13 2017 3:12 PM

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#1 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted September 13 2017 - 3:12 PM

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All ant keepers-
Of you live in MD or in its surrounding regions, prepare ypurselves for a massive nuptial flight. I snagged myself about 10 brachymyrmex queens and 3 lasius neoniger queens, and I expect more tomorrow afternoon and the weekends. Also look out for Lasius, Myrmics, Ponera, some Aphaenogaster, Brachymyrmex, and hopefully some straggling pheidole.
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Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.

 

#2 Offline FeedTheAnts - Posted September 13 2017 - 3:17 PM

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Really? What's the temperature like up there? It's too cold for any nuptial flight here.


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#3 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted September 13 2017 - 3:20 PM

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Like 75 or so but its getting in the 80s over time. The humidity though was the main spike- it just stopped raining this morning.
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Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.

 

#4 Offline Nathant2131 - Posted September 13 2017 - 4:11 PM

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September truly is an insane anting month for the Northeast.

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#5 Offline VoidElecent - Posted September 13 2017 - 4:17 PM

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September truly is an insane anting month for the Northeast.

 

It really is. I love it!


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#6 Offline Bracchymyrmex - Posted September 13 2017 - 4:32 PM

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All ant keepers-
Of you live in MD or in its surrounding regions, prepare ypurselves for a massive nuptial flight. I snagged myself about 10 brachymyrmex queens and 3 lasius neoniger queens, and I expect more tomorrow afternoon and the weekends. Also look out for Lasius, Myrmics, Ponera, some Aphaenogaster, Brachymyrmex, and hopefully some straggling pheidole.

 

Must be moving down the coast, we caught a similar amount of queens in PA the past couple of days. (Over this week it's amounted to ~20 Brachymyrmex depilis, ~6 Myrmica spp. and ~8 Lasius neoniger.)


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#7 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted September 13 2017 - 5:06 PM

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There were and still are ates flying everywhere. You cannot step outside without having a male or female fly into your face or land on you. Turn on a light and bam it's a cloud of males. Even my phone's flashlight attracted some male lasius!

Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
7 It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
8 yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.

 

#8 Offline AntPhycho - Posted September 13 2017 - 5:19 PM

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Wow, sounds like an ant keepers dream, wish I was there lol.

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#9 Offline Canadian anter - Posted September 13 2017 - 7:53 PM

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I have caught 4 Brachymyrmex depilis, 1 Crematogaster cerasi, 2 Myrmica something 1 Myrmica cf. incompletra, 3 Solenopsis incompleta, 3 Lasius umbratus, 2 Lasius murphyi, 1 Lasius claviger  around 50 Lasius neoniger in the past 3 days.


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