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District, Maryland, & Virginia Queen Watch

Started By IcarusSkybound , Apr 14 2018 12:16 PM

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#501 Offline AleeGuy - Posted March 17 2021 - 3:59 PM

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Same, I caught 30 p. imp queens on those few days.

I'm confused ... did they fly?
Wdym? Imparis did flew on those few warm days.

#502 Offline Lillyrose - Posted March 17 2021 - 5:51 PM

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Same, I caught 30 p. imp queens on those few days.

I'm confused ... did they fly?
Wdym? Imparis did flew on those few warm days.
I just mean I'm sad I missed out .. I didn't think anyone was flying yet. I've never gone queen hunting yet and I'm super excited to. I would have tried to find some if I had realized lol
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#503 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 17 2021 - 5:54 PM

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Follow this thread, and you’ll know when things are flying. Next up are Camponotus the first days we hit 80 in April or May.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#504 Offline AleeGuy - Posted March 17 2021 - 6:11 PM

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Same, I caught 30 p. imp queens on those few days.

I'm confused ... did they fly?
Wdym? Imparis did flew on those few warm days.
I just mean I'm sad I missed out .. I didn't think anyone was flying yet. I've never gone queen hunting yet and I'm super excited to. I would have tried to find some if I had realized lol
LOL. Imparis fly when the temperature is above 68 degrees Fahrenheit/20 degrees Celsius. In my experience the humidity and wind doesn't matter for them so it is pretty easy predict their flights(just look by the temperature). I will try to keep this thread updated too as ANTdrew said.
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#505 Offline Lillyrose - Posted March 17 2021 - 6:47 PM

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). I will try to keep this thread updated too as ANTdrew said.

Follow this thread, and you’ll know when things are flying. Next up are Camponotus the first days we hit 80 in April or May.


Ok ... will the imp not fly again? Or next time there is a warm day should I be looking?

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#506 Offline AleeGuy - Posted March 17 2021 - 6:58 PM

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). I will try to keep this thread updated too as ANTdrew said.

Follow this thread, and you’ll know when things are flying. Next up are Camponotus the first days we hit 80 in April or May.

Ok ... will the imp not fly again? Or next time there is a warm day should I be looking?
They should fly again.

#507 Offline Lillyrose - Posted March 24 2021 - 3:19 PM

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Tomorrow looks like a good day ... but I have to work ughhhh ... what time of day is best for imp hunting? I'm gonna take my lunch break with a pocket full of tubes

#508 Offline FeedTheAnts - Posted March 24 2021 - 3:20 PM

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Tomorrow looks like a good day ... but I have to work ughhhh ... what time of day is best for imp hunting? I'm gonna take my lunch break with a pocket full of tubes

2 through 4 pm


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#509 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 24 2021 - 3:21 PM

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Tomorrow looks like a good day ... but I have to work ughhhh ... what time of day is best for imp hunting? I'm gonna take my lunch break with a pocket full of tubes

2 through 4 pm

 

I've had the best luck from 11:30-4:00.


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#510 Offline AleeGuy - Posted March 24 2021 - 3:30 PM

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Tomorrow looks like a good day ... but I have to work ughhhh ... what time of day is best for imp hunting? I'm gonna take my lunch break with a pocket full of tubes

Hottest time of the day which is usually around 2-5pm, just look at the warmest hours on the hour-ed weather forecast. It looks like for tomorrow it will be at 3-5pm.
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#511 Offline Lillyrose - Posted March 26 2021 - 6:37 AM

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Hey there are a ton if imp drones flying in my yard. They don't seem to care about the wind at all. No queen yet but lots of drones.

#512 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 26 2021 - 6:49 AM

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Are you still teaching from home? They dragged our gasters back in to the building a month ago.


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#513 Offline Lillyrose - Posted March 26 2021 - 7:09 AM

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Are you still teaching from home? They dragged our gasters back in to the building a month ago.


I get to alternate .. I teach from home twice a week and today is one of those days ... lol ... which is lucky for me.

If more of my students wanted to come back I'd be there everyday but I only have 5 kids who came back ... everyone else is still online.
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#514 Offline RVAOsprey - Posted March 26 2021 - 9:07 AM

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Managed 3 Imps walking my dog over lunch in Richmond, they were all over - should have brought more film canisters lol 


#515 Offline Lillyrose - Posted March 26 2021 - 9:50 AM

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I have only been able to run out during 5 minute breaks ... dying to try the park.

#516 Offline ANTdrew - Posted March 26 2021 - 10:03 AM

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Just dudes out for me.
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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.

#517 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted March 26 2021 - 10:09 AM

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Just dudes out for me.

Check around small clearings in the woods- they like to swarm to those areas to mate. Also, if you want to take my approach, you can go out to a colony that's releasing females and grab a few dozen of them and toss em into a talc-lined tupperware container or critter-keeper and let the males do their work.  :whistle:


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#518 Offline AleeGuy - Posted March 26 2021 - 11:04 AM

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the whole shopping center is empty, they stopped flying here.

#519 Offline AleeGuy - Posted March 26 2021 - 11:05 AM

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Double post. Refreshed the page to post it again thinking that it would stop the whole process of posting but it didn't.

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#520 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted March 26 2021 - 1:09 PM

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You guys are lucky. I have found one queen here in MI. I'll have to try to get out when they are actually flying.


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