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Queens at the beach

Started By Yubyop , Jun 22 2017 5:35 AM

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#1 Offline Yubyop - Posted June 22 2017 - 5:35 AM

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Hey guys, I'm taking a trip to my local beach soon and I'll have a little bit of time to hunt for queen ants. I was wondering if you guys had any tips because I've never had any luck with beaches before.

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#2 Offline sgheaton - Posted June 22 2017 - 5:45 AM

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Having absolutely zero experience for anting on a beach....check near trash cans or the picnic area?

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#3 Offline Nathant2131 - Posted June 22 2017 - 9:56 AM

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Don't look straight on the beach, look at the edge where vegetation meets the open sand. I found a Myrmica rubra queen this way last May, and foraging ants would only forage on the edge of the dune/vegetation.

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#4 Offline Yubyop - Posted June 22 2017 - 3:41 PM

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Okay guys thanks for the suggestions! Ill see what I can get this weekend.

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Tetramorium sp. e X1

Un-Ided sp X1

#5 Offline Ants4fun - Posted June 23 2017 - 4:33 AM

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One time I had a bonfire at a beach, and queens everywhere started to fly by the bonfire. Some actually flew in it.

#6 Offline AntswerMe - Posted June 24 2017 - 12:23 PM

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One time I had a bonfire at a beach, and queens everywhere started to fly by the bonfire. Some actually flew in it.

Flew into the fire? Gosh. What a way to go...

#7 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted June 24 2017 - 2:02 PM

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Check under rotting dead wood...I found a ton of tetramorium queens that way

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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 YsTheAnt - Posted December 20 2017 - 2:59 PM

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When I toured around Israel I spent a day at the beach and there were tons of messor queens stuck inside the craters of sand that the wind made. I could have walked along the shoreline, all the way to the very back of the beach, and catch fifty queens at least

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