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District, Maryland, & Virginia Queen Watch

Started By IcarusSkybound , Apr 14 2018 12:16 PM

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#381 Offline KitsAntVa - Posted July 16 2020 - 10:49 AM

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Yea actually this looks like the ones I saw with a bunch of Alates, I’m not really familiar with crema so I didn’t know tho.
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#382 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 16 2020 - 11:01 AM

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They similar to the ones at my house, but i haven't seen any alates yet.


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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#383 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted July 16 2020 - 11:37 AM

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Those are probably Crematogaster cerasi.
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#384 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 16 2020 - 11:43 AM

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Those are probably Crematogaster cerasi.

Yeah, most likely.
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#385 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted July 16 2020 - 1:29 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....
You could’ve sold them. From what I can tell Formica queens are pretty hard to come by in VA.

"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

#386 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 16 2020 - 1:33 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....
You could’ve sold them. From what I can tell Formica queens are pretty hard to come by in VA.

 

He was in New York.


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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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#387 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted July 16 2020 - 1:36 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....
You could’ve sold them. From what I can tell Formica queens are pretty hard to come by in VA.
He was in New York.
Oh, didn’t see that. However, NC is North Carolina, not New York.

"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

#388 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 16 2020 - 1:37 PM

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Sry I read that wrong  :facepalm: :lol:


Edited by Antkid12, July 16 2020 - 1:53 PM.

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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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#389 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 17 2020 - 7:59 AM

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Today, I set up a dead cricket as ant bait outside, and a yellow Pheidole sp. came! They soon covered the whole cricket and several majors appeared. Then a Tetramorium worker came, and ran away. I thought he wouldn't bother calling his colony because the cricket was claimed, but soon after that, four more workers appeared and decimated the Pheidole.   :*(


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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#390 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 21 2020 - 9:09 AM

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Crazy storms rolled through my area last night. I went out at 10:00 to Dora Kelly Nature Park hoping for Formica, but I came up empty as usual. I did come across a Monomorium mega-swarm in the parking lot, though, and added four queens to my three queen polygynous grouping. I also came across a larger Pheidole species that I need to ID as well as this monstrosity of a beetle:

 

 


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#391 Offline FeedTheAnts - Posted July 21 2020 - 9:16 AM

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That's an Eastern Hercules Beetle! Awesome find btw, I've only seen one in my life. 


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I accidentally froze all my ants 

#392 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 21 2020 - 9:27 AM

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It was dead, so I brought it home to creep out my kids. :lol:


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Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#393 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 21 2020 - 9:48 AM

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Crazy storms rolled through my area last night. I went out at 10:00 to Dora Kelly Nature Park hoping for Formica, but I came up empty as usual. I did come across a Monomorium mega-swarm in the parking lot, though, and added four queens to my three queen polygynous grouping. I also came across a larger Pheidole species that I need to ID as well as this monstrosity of a beetle:

 

Niiice! Looks 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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#394 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 21 2020 - 3:01 PM

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Found a molesta-group queen just now.


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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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#395 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 21 2020 - 3:54 PM

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Found a molesta-group queen just now.

We just had a storm roll through. I bet they’ll come to black-lights. I’m good for tiny ants, though, with my 7-queen Monomorium group.

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#396 Offline Antkid12 - Posted July 21 2020 - 4:12 PM

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sa

 

 

Found a molesta-group queen just now.

We just had a storm roll through. I bet they’ll come to black-lights. I’m good for tiny ants, though, with my 7-queen Monomorium group.

 

Me too, caught another before the storm.


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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#397 Offline Antkid12 - Posted August 5 2020 - 9:50 AM

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This thread has been pretty inactive for a while. Any new finds?


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

 

                    

                   

 

 

#398 Offline ANTdrew - Posted August 5 2020 - 10:23 AM

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August is a pretty dead month in my experience.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#399 Offline VenomousBeast - Posted August 5 2020 - 10:33 AM

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Well, I’ve found quite a bit😂 I’m just busy packing for Mexico and working to report them on here, but here’s what I’ve found the past 2 days
12 Monomorium minimum queens, 2 Camponotus pennsylvanicus. , and 2 Stigmatomma pallipes queens
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Keeps:

1:Pogonomymex occidentalis

4: Tetramorium immigrans

2 Reticulitermes flavipes

#400 Offline Antkid12 - Posted August 5 2020 - 1:22 PM

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Well, I’ve found quite a bit I’m just busy packing for Mexico and working to report them on here, but here’s what I’ve found the past 2 days
12 Monomorium minimum queens, 2 Camponotus pennsylvanicus. , and 2 Stigmatomma pallipes queens

Awesome! 


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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

 

                    

                   

 

 

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