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#81 Offline Jadeninja9 - Posted May 1 2018 - 8:07 PM

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Hold on, this can’t be right. According to antweb there are no tetramorium species in the Bay Area at all.
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Tetramorium Immigrans is apparently an exotic species in the Bay Area. Which is funny, since I find them pretty much everywhere.
It’s weird how it doesn’t list them

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#82 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted May 1 2018 - 9:13 PM

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Yeah, if you look at the Bay area project and click images and hit species, it shows them though.

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#83 Offline Derpy - Posted May 2 2018 - 6:59 AM

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I didn’t realize we had so many temnothorax species!

-1x Parasitic Formica Sp. Colony

-1x Pogonomymrex Californicus Colony

-1x Camponotus Hyatti Colony

 


#84 Offline Jadeninja9 - Posted May 3 2018 - 8:31 PM

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This queen was found on Monday morning. I dunno what species this queen was but my friend took a picture of it before the other boys in the boys lockeroom room stepped on it lol. It was described as being “big”. It wasn’t even warm on Monday. The highest temperature was 59 degrees that day.

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#85 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted May 4 2018 - 7:04 PM

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Can we get more pics? Looks like a C. vicinus to me.

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#86 Offline Jadeninja9 - Posted May 4 2018 - 8:10 PM

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Can we get more pics? Looks like a C. vicinus to me.


Haha that was the only picture my friend took before the other kids stepped on it lol
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#87 Offline Derpy - Posted May 4 2018 - 9:19 PM

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Oh rip he should have tried to catch it:(

-1x Parasitic Formica Sp. Colony

-1x Pogonomymrex Californicus Colony

-1x Camponotus Hyatti Colony

 


#88 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted May 4 2018 - 9:34 PM

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Aww... Wish I had queens in my locker room :lol:

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#89 Offline Jadeninja9 - Posted May 4 2018 - 9:43 PM

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Yeah rip lol. He’s not an ant collector he just known about my ant stuff and he took a picture of the queen for me.

#90 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted May 4 2018 - 9:53 PM

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Lol nice. You should be able to find some more soon. We still are waiting for those big vicinus flights...

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#91 Offline sericultivist - Posted May 5 2018 - 2:05 AM

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Hmm, I'm not sure if it was pergandei after seeing the videos. I know andrei pretty well, as they are very, very common around here and their nests are massive. These were too small to be andrei, even taking into account their polymorphism. The tiny Veromessor I saw were not polymorphic, all of them being the same size. I considered that maybe they were nanitics, but the nest was simply too large for that to be true, having several large entrances and hundreds of workers. 

 

I took a short video of one of the smaller nest entrances to the side, where a few workers were cleaning out the nest.

 

 

Brian Fisher of Cal Academy and Antweb identified these as Tetramorium immigrans. This kind of has my head spinning, because everything I've seen before this that I thought was Tetramorium was -a lot- smaller than these. I'm going to go out and collect some of the ants I thought we Tetramorium prior to finding the ants in the video so we can figure out what they are.



#92 Offline Jadeninja9 - Posted May 5 2018 - 6:58 AM

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Haha that’s too good.

#93 Offline Jadeninja9 - Posted May 5 2018 - 6:59 AM

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Wunderlich County Park in Woodside has tons of Camponotus vicinus majors running around. I went there yesterday but I think I went too late in the day because I didn’t find anything. All I found were termite queens lol.

#94 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted May 5 2018 - 7:55 AM

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Wunderlich County Park in Woodside has tons of Camponotus vicinus majors running around. I went there yesterday but I think I went too late in the day because I didn’t find anything. All I found were termite queens lol.

 

aren't they supposed to be found at night?

 

(Haha, the location is 16 minutes car ride away, but it takes 1 day and 1 hour to go by train/bus)

 

Will they be flying tonight?


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#95 Offline Jadeninja9 - Posted May 5 2018 - 8:01 AM

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Wunderlich County Park in Woodside has tons of Camponotus vicinus majors running around. I went there yesterday but I think I went too late in the day because I didn’t find anything. All I found were termite queens lol.

 

aren't they supposed to be found at night?

 

(Haha, the location is 16 minutes car ride away, but it takes 1 day and 1 hour to go by train/bus)

 

I was 5:30pm.



#96 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted May 5 2018 - 1:36 PM

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Wunderlich County Park in Woodside has tons of Camponotus vicinus majors running around. I went there yesterday but I think I went too late in the day because I didn’t find anything. All I found were termite queens lol.

 

Any specific trail? :P



#97 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted May 5 2018 - 3:01 PM

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Camponotus Vicinus is common in tons of places, just gotta go up into the hills. Santa Teresa county park has tons of vicinus nests.

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#98 Offline Jadeninja9 - Posted May 5 2018 - 4:42 PM

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Wunderlich County Park in Woodside has tons of Camponotus vicinus majors running around. I went there yesterday but I think I went too late in the day because I didn’t find anything. All I found were termite queens lol.


Any specific trail? :P

They are anywhere

#99 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted May 5 2018 - 5:36 PM

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Just caught six Pogonomyrmex Queens with Derpy!! I now have six and he has five.

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#100 Offline sirjordanncurtis - Posted May 5 2018 - 5:54 PM

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Just caught six Pogonomyrmex Queens with Derpy!! I now have six and he has five.


Oh damn, I want in




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