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District, Maryland, & Virginia Queen Watch

Started By IcarusSkybound , Apr 14 2018 12:16 PM

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#361 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 8 2020 - 4:09 AM

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How big are Pheidole bicarinata queens?


Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#362 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 8 2020 - 6:52 AM

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They’re about half the size of a Tetramorium queen. Did you find any on your light?
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#363 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted July 8 2020 - 7:07 AM

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Yeah, 4-5 mm. Same size as Solenopsis molesta.


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#364 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 9 2020 - 9:52 AM

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They’re about half the size of a Tetramorium queen. Did you find any on your light?

Ok, thanks I was just wondering...I think bicarinata is absent. I should be able to get tysoni  or pilfera, but I haven't seen any on my blacklight.


Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#365 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 10 2020 - 8:15 AM

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Guess what I found, boys!
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#366 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted July 10 2020 - 8:17 AM

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Guess what I found, boys!

Uh oh... Am I gonna be jealous?


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#367 Offline FeedTheAnts - Posted July 10 2020 - 8:42 AM

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Guess what I found, boys!

Aphaenogaster tennesseensis?


I accidentally froze all my ants 

#368 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted July 10 2020 - 9:20 AM

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Guess what I found, boys!

I got a bunch of Pheidole tysoni queens today. They were all under rocks and some were in old cobwebs. I even found a few Colobopsis queens (dead, unfortunately) in spiderwebs. Going out later tonight to catch a ton more, as the flight last night was evidently huge. There were hundreds of dead queens around my house!


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#369 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 10 2020 - 9:23 AM

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Reveal: Formica pallidefulva dealate!
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#370 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted July 10 2020 - 9:24 AM

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Reveal: Formica pallidefulva dealate!

Nice! 

 

Edit: If you can find another, they're polygynous.


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#371 Offline FeedTheAnts - Posted July 10 2020 - 9:33 AM

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Reveal: Formica pallidefulva dealate!

Join the Formica team, let's goooooooooooo!


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I accidentally froze all my ants 

#372 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 10 2020 - 9:38 AM

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Reveal: Formica pallidefulva dealate!

Join the Formica team, let's goooooooooooo!
Heck yeah, bro!
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#373 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted July 10 2020 - 9:39 AM

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Reveal: Formica pallidefulva dealate!

Join the Formica team, let's goooooooooooo!

 

Yes, but do you have a 17 queen Formica subsericea colony???  :lol:


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#374 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 10 2020 - 12:52 PM

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Reveal: Formica pallidefulva dealate!

Niiice!


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Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#375 Offline VenomousBeast - Posted July 10 2020 - 3:35 PM

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Reveal: Formica pallidefulva dealate!


CONGRATS!! How’d you find her? There was a Formica flight here in NC and I saw maybe 40-50 queens today!! Too bad I can’t bring them back home....
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Keeps:

1:Pogonomymex occidentalis

4: Tetramorium immigrans

2 Reticulitermes flavipes

#376 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 10 2020 - 3:46 PM

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She was roaming in the grass by the Theodore Roosevelt Island parking lot. It was overcast and very humid when I found her at 11:15.
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#377 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 14 2020 - 8:03 AM

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I was hoping for more Formica after the heavy rains we had, but I came across a big swarming flight of Monomorium instead. Pairs were mating on a huge clump of trumpet creeper, so I gathered three queens I saw mating. I put all three in a polygynous grouping just for the heck of it.
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#378 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 14 2020 - 9:46 AM

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I was hoping for more Formica after the heavy rains we had, but I came across a big swarming flight of Monomorium instead. Pairs were mating on a huge clump of trumpet creeper, so I gathered three queens I saw mating. I put all three in a polygynous grouping just for the heck of it.

Awesome!


Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#379 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 15 2020 - 8:18 AM

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Found another Pheidole pilfera worker in the same place I saw the last one! There is probably a colony there.


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Ants I have: Tapinoma sessile(2 queen colony). RED MORPH Camponotus neacticus(now has pupae!), Tetramorium immigrans (x3), Aphaenogaster sp, Temnothorax sp, Brachymyrmex sp.   possibly infertile   :(,  Ponera pennsylvanica, and Pheidole morrisi!  :yahoo: 

 

Other insects: Polistes sp. Queen

                    

Ants I need: Pheidole sp., Trachymyrmex sp., Crematogaster cerasi , Dorymyrmex sp. Most wanted: Pheidole morrisii

 

                    

                   

 

 

#380 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 16 2020 - 10:40 AM

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I took my kids for a nature walk at Huntley Meadows this morning. Along the boardwalk through the swamp, I came across this Crematogaster colony starting to swarm out of their nest with many winged queens. Of course my kids started being annoying, so I couldn't hang around to see if they'd fly or look for dealates, so I'm super bummed about that. I'm intrigued to see such an early flight, or maybe it is a different species? Ashmeadi?

 

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