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SF Bay Area Anters

Started By Jadeninja9 , Feb 9 2018 11:28 PM

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#621 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted May 30 2019 - 5:06 PM

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Next week should have good sized flights. Hoping for Veromessor andrei, Pheidole, Solenopsis, and Tetramorium.

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#622 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted May 30 2019 - 5:36 PM

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I've found queens on cars, but none of them were fertile


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#623 Offline EthanNgo678 - Posted June 1 2019 - 4:52 PM

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Formica's flying


Plants r cool

#624 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted June 7 2019 - 2:32 PM

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Formica's flying

 

Do you have a specific location?


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#625 Offline EthanNgo678 - Posted June 10 2019 - 6:56 PM

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Aphaenogaster occidentalis is flying 


Plants r cool

#626 Offline Antking123 - Posted June 15 2019 - 7:14 PM

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Aphaenogaster occidentalis is flying 

Those are the ones with workers that look like tetramorium, but are a bit larger right? And the queens are kind of smaller than tetramorium and their abdomens are orangey underneath. I can't remember if the ants I am thinking of were called Aphaenogaster occidentalis or not. 


#627 Offline Derpy - Posted June 15 2019 - 7:37 PM

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It seems to be too early for apheanogaster to be flying. Might just be tetramorium.


-1x Parasitic Formica Sp. Colony

-1x Pogonomymrex Californicus Colony

-1x Camponotus Hyatti Colony

 

#628 Offline NickAnter - Posted June 29 2019 - 3:27 PM

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We might go to Monterey to see the aquarium later in summer. Do you think that I would find at least one T. immigrans queen while there for a couple days? Even in August?

Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#629 Offline HappyGoLucky123 - Posted December 23 2019 - 4:05 PM

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Hi All! Any leads on finding a Leaf Cutter queen around the SF Bay Area? Or know of anyone we can visit who has one? Thanks!


#630 Offline JenC - Posted December 23 2019 - 6:03 PM

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Hi All! Any leads on finding a Leaf Cutter queen around the SF Bay Area? Or know of anyone we can visit who has one? Thanks!


There are no leaf cutter species around the Bay Area. But Drew has some down in Socal.

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Current Colonies:
1x Camponotus Vicinus (3 Workers)

Single Queens:
3x Camponotus Clarithorax
4x Camponotus Maritimus
5x Camponotus Ca02
7x Camponotus Sansabeanus
1x Myrmecocustus Testaceus
3x Prenolepis Imparis

#631 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted January 3 2020 - 2:36 PM

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Flights should be starting soon :)

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#632 Offline miksha - Posted January 3 2020 - 9:19 PM

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Flights should be starting soon :)

Which species? I can't wait to find some ants this weather is so depressing :/


#633 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted January 3 2020 - 10:42 PM

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Prenolepis imparis can fly as early as late January, those are usually the first to go. Typically around a month or two later Camponotus start flying.

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#634 Offline JenC - Posted January 5 2020 - 10:43 PM

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I can't wait for those Camponotus...
Current Colonies:
1x Camponotus Vicinus (3 Workers)

Single Queens:
3x Camponotus Clarithorax
4x Camponotus Maritimus
5x Camponotus Ca02
7x Camponotus Sansabeanus
1x Myrmecocustus Testaceus
3x Prenolepis Imparis

#635 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted January 6 2020 - 8:39 AM

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Whereabouts is good for looking for P. imparis queens? I know they have outposts near Stanford but any particular reasonably accessible area in South Bay?

Otherwise I'll just hit one of you up for a queen in a tube sometime.  :D


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Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus, vicinus, quercicola

Liometopum occidentale;  Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and previously californicus

Tetramorium sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis

 

Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus

Spoods: Phidippus sp.

#636 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 6 2020 - 10:19 AM

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in that case....anyone selling Novomessor Cockerelli in the bay area? :P

also are pogonomyrmex barbatus found around here? They seem like they might be fun too....basically just looking for a very large, active, diurnal harvester ant that doesnt hibernate.

No, we don't have P. barbatus. Only in Florida.


#637 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 6 2020 - 10:20 AM

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Flights should be starting soon :)

Which species? I can't wait to find some ants this weather is so depressing :/

 

Only ants that will be flying around now will be P. imparis.


#638 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 6 2020 - 10:21 AM

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Hi All! Any leads on finding a Leaf Cutter queen around the SF Bay Area? Or know of anyone we can visit who has one? Thanks!

 

Only attines we have near us are cyphomyrmex wheeleri, looking to get some queens this summer. If you want leafcutters you'll have to ask people in Socal.


#639 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 6 2020 - 10:23 AM

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Aphaenogaster occidentalis is flying 

Those are the ones with workers that look like tetramorium, but are a bit larger right? And the queens are kind of smaller than tetramorium and their abdomens are orangey underneath. I can't remember if the ants I am thinking of were called Aphaenogaster occidentalis or not. 

 

 

No, aphaenogaster are more like leggy pheidole, don't look like tetras at all. Queens are around the same size as workers, slightly larger and bulkier. Mostly brown, no orange I can remember. I honestly wouldn't recommend them to beginners, their diet is quite demanding.


#640 Offline ponerinecat - Posted January 6 2020 - 10:37 AM

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in that case....anyone selling Novomessor Cockerelli in the bay area? :P

also are pogonomyrmex barbatus found around here? They seem like they might be fun too....basically just looking for a very large, active, diurnal harvester ant that doesnt hibernate.

No, we don't have P. barbatus. Only in Florida.

 

Nvm, we may have P. barbatus, but the likelihood is slim. I thought you meant P. badius.


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