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District, Maryland, & Virginia Queen Watch

Started By IcarusSkybound , Apr 14 2018 12:16 PM

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#661 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 26 2021 - 6:50 PM

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Found around 30 Temnothorax queens today(there were at least 2 or 3 different spp. of them) and 1 colobopsis queen under a blacklight.

Yup. They’ve been out in force. I even had a Colobopsis in my living room.
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#662 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 29 2021 - 2:19 AM

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I’ve been a crazy man and set a timer on my blacklight to cut on at 4:00am. I wake up a little after that to check for dawn flights. Today I was rewarded with seeing a massive Aphaenogaster flight. I collected two queens I watched mate. I’m still getting skunked by the Pheidole genus, though. Ugh!
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#663 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 29 2021 - 3:58 AM

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Don’t they fly the first week of July?

My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#664 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 29 2021 - 5:35 AM

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Apparently not!
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#665 Offline ambx327 - Posted June 29 2021 - 7:12 AM

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Found a couple Camponotus pennsylvanicus queens in the Fairfax area last night!


#666 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 29 2021 - 7:33 AM

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Found a couple Camponotus pennsylvanicus queens in the Fairfax area last night!

I found one too. They are flying late this year.
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#667 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 29 2021 - 7:40 AM

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Found a couple Camponotus pennsylvanicus queens in the Fairfax area last night!

I found one too. They are flying late this year.

 

C. pennsylvanicus are weird in the sense that they fly continuously throughout the summer in small amounts.


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#668 Offline AleeGuy - Posted June 29 2021 - 1:17 PM

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I’ve been a crazy man and set a timer on my blacklight to cut on at 4:00am. I wake up a little after that to check for dawn flights. Today I was rewarded with seeing a massive Aphaenogaster flight. I collected two queens I watched mate. I’m still getting skunked by the Pheidole genus, though. Ugh!

I found aphaenogaster cf. picea alate 2 days ago

#669 Offline AleeGuy - Posted June 29 2021 - 1:20 PM

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I’ve been a crazy man and set a timer on my blacklight to cut on at 4:00am. I wake up a little after that to check for dawn flights. Today I was rewarded with seeing a massive Aphaenogaster flight. I collected two queens I watched mate. I’m still getting skunked by the Pheidole genus, though. Ugh!

I found aphaenogaster cf. picea alate 2 days ago

#670 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 5 2021 - 5:23 PM

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Pheidole bicarinata do be flying! I got two at my upgraded light.
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#671 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted July 5 2021 - 5:32 PM

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Pheidole bicarinata do be flying! I got two at my upgraded light.

Nice! We just got our first major Colobopsis flights a few nights ago. I've been on the lookout and already got one C. obliqua and a few Ph. bicarinata as well as the first Ph. tysoni queen of the month!


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#672 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 5 2021 - 5:47 PM

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Colobopsis flights have been extremely heavy here for the last two weeks. Queens fly in my house when I shut the light off, and I find them all over the house.
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#673 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted July 7 2021 - 5:21 AM

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If you want to find tysoni I’d recommend lookin go at 7 am at pools.

My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#674 Offline AleeGuy - Posted July 13 2021 - 5:43 PM

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Caught pheidole bicarinata and hypoponera opacior under a blacklight yesterday.

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#675 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted July 13 2021 - 7:29 PM

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Nice! Got 47 Ph. tysoni and 1 M. minimum queen this morning, and just got 2 B. depilis at my light.
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#676 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted July 14 2021 - 6:01 AM

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That’s awesome I got to look out for the b. Depilis then.

My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#677 Offline Lillyrose - Posted August 11 2021 - 8:50 AM

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Found this lovely lady contemplating a few sticks. Seems she may have flown fairly recently.

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#678 Offline ANTdrew - Posted August 11 2021 - 12:20 PM

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Nice! Crematogaster.
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#679 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 19 2021 - 2:45 AM

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Crematogaster and Lasius neoniger flew yesterday. My brother found a dealate neoniger for me.
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#680 Offline OiledOlives - Posted February 23 2022 - 11:41 AM

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Minor Prenolepis imparis flights in Fairfax County today. 


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