7 replies to this topic

[FanaticAnt]

Hey guys I'm new here, my names Jacob and I'm currently becoming obsessed with the keeping of ants. Also I'm fighting the urge to keep fire ants (solenopsis xyloni) as they are the only founding queens I have at the moment.

 

Any advice on what I can do to catch larger and less common species would be greatly appreciated! Looking forward to getting to know some people around here.

 

 

[ZllGGY]

i would go to any local parks in your town or even tr going to some state parks to go hunting. once you start to know what to look for you'll see potential founding chambers every where.

[FanaticAnt]

Yeah the trouble is finding someone to go with me, thanks I went looking around my house this morning and found a Pogonomyrmex Californicus colony about 300 meters away. Definitely adding that to my list of desired species .

[Straywolf94]

Hey, I'm also in San Diego and looking for people to go anting with.  I live in the Mira Mesa area.  Unfortunately, most of San Diego is overrun with Argentine ants, so to find any of the local species, we would have to go farther East.  Hit me up if you want to plan some trips.

[FanaticAnt]

I live in Poway so I'm a bit north east of you, are you experienced? Cause I'm like 90% clueless to this whole founding chamber hunting aspect of anting.

[Straywolf94]

I started getting into it around Feb this year, so not experienced haha.  But I've been following all the posts here so hopefully have learned a lot.   

[Vick09usmc]

I have been doing this for a few years now. don't have much time to go searching but i try to make time every now and then. your best bet for finding queens will be out by ramona in the mountains- TONS of camponotus. pogonomyrmex are fairly common , rhor park is a good area, they have not had their main flights there yet. so its worth checking out as soon as it rains. anyhow, i would be up for an anting trip, i head out as far as hoshua tree- currently i have myrmecocystus navajo, mimicus, camponotus vicinus, solenopsis molesta amongst a few others. 

[FanaticAnt]

ya lets do it, I'm about 5-10 min out from ramona. I would also be game for joshua tree, I really would like any myrmecocystus and pogonomyrmex queens.

 

Edit: Ill message you both with my contact info.

Edited by FanaticAnt, June 29 2018 - 5:36 PM.