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[Scrixx]

Nuptial flight, 29 queens with a hundred males of 2 species, 1 S. xyloni, 1 unided

 

Species: Solenopsis molesta, Solenopsis xyloni
Location: Fontana, California
Date:  6-11-2018
Time: 19:30-22:30 PM

Temperature: 84 F
Humidity: 40%
Wind: No wind
Rain: No recent rain

Edited by Scrixx, June 13 2018 - 12:26 PM.

[Barristan]

Species: Pogonomyrmex badius
Location: Pensacola, Florida
Date: June 5, 2018
Time: 10:30 AM
Temperature: 87F
Humidity: 43%
Rain: 2 days before

 

A rather large flight with many queens and males.

 

I wonder how the spiral will look at the end of the year on my flight map

 

[VoidElecent]

Species: Tapinoma sessile
Location: Ambler, Pennsylvania
Date:  6-13-2018
Time: 4:30-6:30 PM

Temperature: 78°-79° F
Humidity: 80%
Wind: No wind
Rain: Drizzle in the morning

 

Species: Tetramorium immigrans
Location: Ambler, Pennsylvania
Date:  6-13-2018
Time: 10:30 PM

Temperature: 74° F
Humidity: 100%
Wind: Stiff breeze
Rain: Drizzle in the morning

 

I don't know if I'd necessarily consider the Tetramorium activity a "flight", per se. It was odd—alates were poking their heads out of some nest entrances and being dragged back inside their nests by workers at the mouths of other entrances, presumably belonging to neighboring, but unaffiliated colonies. There were also several dead males surrounding the nests and we managed to get our hands on a live female alate that seemed to have shed two of her four wings. We also collected a live, but weak Formicine male alate that I have yet to identify.

[skocko76]

Species: Tetramorium semilaeve
Location: Split, Croatia
Date:  6-10-2018
Time: 8:00 PM

Temperature: 82° F (28 C)
Humidity: ?
Wind: none
Rain: heavy T-storm 2 nights prior

 

Males and females present. Queens are 6mm long.

 

 

Edited by skocko76, July 16 2018 - 7:37 AM.

[Scrixx]

I thought they might be Temnothorax but just S. molesta. I hoped the Pogonomyrmex would be subnitidus but I think it's P. californicus

 

Species: 2 Solenopsis molesta, 1 Pogonomyrmex californicus or subnitidus

Location: Lytle Creek, California
Date:  6-13-2018
Time: 19:30-21:30 PM

Temperature: 80.4 F
Humidity: 23%
Wind: 4mph, pretty breezy
Rain: No recent rain

 

This Pogonomyrmex is weird. At first I thought there was fungus growing on its back but under a microscope they look like sand grains. I'm really not sure. Any thoughts? It's hard to check for spines too. 

 

Edited by Scrixx, June 14 2018 - 2:40 PM.

[Batspiderfish]

A member on another forum, from Indiana, found Lasius speculiventris on June 14th, said that they saw her pulling her wings off. I've only ever seen them fly with Lasius umbratus in the fall.

[dspdrew]

 

I thought they might be Temnothorax but just S. molesta. I hoped the Pogonomyrmex would be subnitidus but I think it's P. californicus

 

Species: 2 Solenopsis molesta, 1 Pogonomyrmex californicus or subnitidus

Location: Lytle Creek, California
Date:  6-13-2018
Time: 19:30-21:30 PM

Temperature: 80.4 F
Humidity: 23%
Wind: 4mph, pretty breezy
Rain: No recent rain

 

This Pogonomyrmex is weird. At first I thought there was fungus growing on its back but under a microscope they look like sand grains. I'm really not sure. Any thoughts? It's hard to check for spines too. 

 

 

 

Are those mites on its thorax?

[dspdrew]

Species: Solenopsis molesta, S. xyloni, Temnothorax sp. [181], Crematogaster cf. mutans, Liometopum occidentale, Hypoponera sp.
Location: Trabuco Canyon, California
Date:  6-11-2018
Time: 9:00 PM

Temperature: 77 F
Humidity: 55%
Wind: No wind
Rain: No recent rain

 

Species: Solenopsis molesta, S. xyloni, Temnothorax sp. [181], Crematogaster cf. mutans, Nylanderia vividula, Lasius sp..
Location: Trabuco Canyon, California
Date:  6-13-2018
Time: 9:00 PM

Temperature: 74 F
Humidity: 55%
Wind: No wind
Rain: No recent rain

 

6-11-2018 were huge Solenopsis molesta and Temnothorax sp. flights. i only found 1 Liometopum occidentale, 1 Hypoponera sp., and 1 parasitic Lasius sp. queen.

[AnthonyP163]

Species:  Tetramorium immigrans, Camponotus pennsylvanicus

Location: Waukesha, Wisconsin

Date: 6-16-18

Time: 8:00-9:30PM

Temperature: 79F

Humidity: 84%

Wind: 9 mph

Rain: rained earlier in the morning

 

There was rain as I found the queens, which seemed to stop the flights like it did that morning. The Tetramorium queen I found was being attacked by workers, seemed to be a small flight.

[skocko76]

Species: Tetramorium semilaeve
Location: Split, Croatia
Date:  6-18-2018
Time: 6:30 PM

Temperature: 79° F (26 C)
Humidity: very humid
Wind: light
Rain: none, except a very weak and short drizzle, and an observed localized summer storm a couple miles away, across bay - about the same time the queens were found

 

Caught 4 more of Tetramorium semilaeve as one week ago (check my post above)

Edited by skocko76, July 16 2018 - 7:38 AM.

[Aaron567]

Species: Pheidole dentata, Solenopsis pergandei
Location: Pensacola, Florida
Date: June 16, 2018
Time: 9:30 AM

Temperature: 82F
Humidity: 76%
Wind: 2 mph
Rain: Day before

 

Species: Trachymyrmex septentrionalis
Location: Pensacola, Florida
Date: June 16, 2018
Time: 3:00 PM

Temperature: 79F
Humidity: 83%
Wind: 6 mph
Rain: Day before

 

Species: Odontomachus haematodus, Crematogaster ashmeadi
Location: Pensacola, Florida
Date: June 17, 2018
Time: 7:30 PM

Temperature: 82F
Humidity: 78%
Wind: 3 mph
Rain: 2 days before

 

Species: Solenopsis carolinensis, Pheidole dentata, Temnothorax pergandei, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis
Location: Pensacola, Florida
Date: June 18, 2018
Time: 8:00 AM

Temperature: 81F
Humidity: 86%
Wind: 5 mph
Rain: 3 days before

 

Species: Crematogaster pinicola
Location: Pensacola, Florida
Date: June 18, 2018
Time: 9:30 PM

Temperature: 78F
Humidity: 86%
Wind: 1 mph
Rain: 3 days before

[BeginnerAntKeeper]

Does anyone know what species are flying in Singapore now and what species may be flying soon?

[nick2253]

Two Tetramorium nuptial flights.  I'm assuming they flew the morning of collection.  I found 4 the first flight, and 7 the next flight, all the same species.

 

Species: Tetramorium immigrans
Location: Medford, OR, USA
Date:  6-12-2018
Time: 9:00 AM (collected)

Temperature: about 62°F
Humidity: 65%
Wind: light
Rain: trace of rain the day before

 

Species: Tetramorium immigrans
Location: Medford, OR, USA
Date:  6-18-2018
Time: 9:00 AM

Temperature: about 65° F
Humidity: 63%
Wind: light
Rain: storm two days before

 

In both these cases, I'm assuming they flew sometime around sunrise, though I did find a queen with one wing still attached at noon the second flight.  The overnight temperatures were fairly warm (low was around 60°F) and humidity before dawn was over 80%.

 

Identification thread: http://www.formicult...ord-or-6182018/

[Barristan]

Species: Lasius cf. niger

Location: Bindlach, Bavaria, Germany

Date: 2018-06-20

Time: 16:20 - 16:45

Temperature: 29 °C

Humidity: 39 %

Wind: 8 km/h

Rain: no recent rain

Sky condition: mostly sunny

 

Small nuptial flight in my garden. Maybe 50 alates flew away, but probably not the main flight.

[VoidElecent]

Species: Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma sessile, Formica pallidefulva (M)

Location: Ambler, Pennsylvania

Date: 6/18/18

Time: ~11:00AM-1:00PM

Temperature: 81° F

Humidity: 40%

Wind: 

Rain: No rain in past three days.

Method: T immigrans in swimming pool; T. sessile during nuptial flight, dead F. pallidefulva male.

 

Species: Camponotus pennsylvanicus, Tetramorium immigrans, Lasius cf. alienus, Camponotus nearcticus.

Location: Ambler, Pennsylvania

Date: 6/18/18

Time: 9:30PM-10:30PM

Temperature: 75° F

Humidity: 60%

Wind:

Rain: No rain in past three days.

Method: Blacklight. I was surprised to see Tetramorium show up, perhaps the alates were stragglers from the morning.

 

Species: Tapinoma sessile

Location: Chalfont, Pennsylvania.

Date: 6/24/18

Time: 8:00PM

Temperature: 73°F

Humidity: 80%

Wind:

Rain: Rained in the morning.

Method: Wandering dealate collected.

Edited by VoidElecent, June 23 2018 - 8:30 PM.

[Barristan]

Species: Tapinoma sessile
Location: Chalfont, Pennsylvania.
Date: 6/24/18
Time: 8:00PM
Temperature: 73°F
Humidity: 80%
Wind:
Rain: Rained in the morning.
Method: Wandering dealate collected.

Wrong date I guess?

[VoidElecent]

Species: Tapinoma sessile, Tetramorium immigrans
Location: Ambler, Pennsylvania
Date:  6-24-2018
Time: 11:00 AM

Temperature: 79° F
Humidity: 90%
Wind: Very little wind
Rain: Drizzle in the morning, rain last night.

 

Species: Tapinoma sessile
Location: Ambler, Pennsylvania
Date:  6-24-2018
Time: 8:30 PM

Temperature: 79° F
Humidity: 80%
Wind: Very little
Rain: Drizzle in the morning, rain last night.

 

Species: Dorymrymex cf. grandulus, Dolichoderus cf. mariae, Trachymyrmex septentrionalis, Tapinoma sessile, Aphaenogaster cf. rudis, Lasius speculiventris, Lasius umbratus.
Location: Central New Jersey
Date:  6-24-2018
Time: 1:30PM-5:30PM

Temperature: 81°-85° F
Humidity: 90%
Wind: No wind
Rain: Rain night before.

 

I think I'm still in shock we actually managed to document so many species. Dolichoderus are, and always have been, a dream for me to keep. After work tomorrow, I'll do a little photoshoot with the queen and start my first and likely only journal, ever.

[dspdrew]

Species: Solenopsis molesta, S. xyloni, Temnothorax sp. [181], Crematogaster cf. mutans, Nylanderia vividula, Lasius sp..
Location: Trabuco Canyon, California
Date:  6-23-2018
Time: 9:00 PM

Temperature: 70 F
Humidity: 55%
Wind: Light wind
Rain: No recent rain

[AntsAreUs]

Species: Formica incerta
Location: Marion, Indiana
Date:  6-25-2018
Time: 11:15 AM

Temperature: 73 F
Humidity: 78%
Wind: Light wind
Rain: Rained for 4 days straight starting 6 days ago

[TennesseeAnts]

Species: Unknown orange Pheidole queen
Location: Nashville, TN
Date: 6-27-2018
Time: Very early. Around 6:00 am
Temperature: 88 F
Humidity: ???
Wind: Light wind
Rain: Rained last night

Edited by Ant_Dude2908, June 28 2018 - 4:22 PM.