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#381 Offline Manitobant - Posted September 2 2019 - 2:54 PM

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Down here in Dixie, Crematogaster are our Labor Day ants.

and then down in Texas solenopsis are your every holiday ants.
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#382 Offline Ikerrilove - Posted September 2 2019 - 4:23 PM

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The queens were hitting me in the face tonight and I bet a few came in just from my hair... Lasius are crazy out there right now.



#383 Offline Mercutia - Posted September 3 2019 - 7:23 AM

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Was at the CNE on labor day and a bunch of very small Myrmica queens were out flying. I've never had much luck with them so I let them be. But they were nuts and very very small!


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#384 Offline Canadian anter - Posted September 3 2019 - 7:30 AM

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I caught over a hundred queens at Rouge. Then accidentally gassed them :/

Received an A tennesseenis caught at High Park
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#385 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted September 3 2019 - 7:44 AM

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I found an A. tennesseensis queen in a pool. She died in the car.

#386 Offline FormiCanada - Posted September 3 2019 - 8:39 AM

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Right now flying in the GTA are Crematogaster, Aphaenogaster, Lasius, Solenopsis and Formica. Have collected quite a few in the last few days!


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#387 Offline Canadian anter - Posted September 3 2019 - 8:48 AM

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For sure! have from 20-50 of each
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#388 Offline rbarreto - Posted September 3 2019 - 9:39 AM

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Pretty much everything is flying in Ottawa rn

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#389 Offline Mercutia - Posted September 11 2019 - 3:39 PM

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Lasius, parasitic Lasius, Crematogaster, Solenopsis molesta, Myrmica all flying like it’s the apocalypse.
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#390 Offline Mercutia - Posted September 11 2019 - 6:29 PM

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It was never my intention to catch this many... Ooops... They just kept flying at me!


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#391 Offline FormiCanada - Posted September 11 2019 - 6:43 PM

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It was never my intention to catch this many... Ooops... They just kept flying at me!

 

 

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#392 Offline Canadian anter - Posted September 11 2019 - 7:01 PM

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I caught around 160 queens of 17 different species today. Solenopsis molesta, Ponera pennsylvanica, Crematogaster cerasi, Brachymyrmex depilis, Solenopsis molesta, Lasius claviger, Lasius pallitarsis, Lasius neoniger, Lasius minutus, Lasius aphidcolus, Myrmica incompleta, Myrmica rubra, Tetramorium immigrans, and 4 other different species of Myrmica

med_gallery_8_1613_858865.jpg "They were all flying at me" might not be the best vocabulary to use today

It was never my intention to catch this many... Ooops... They just kept flying at me!


Probably not the best wording

Edited by Canadian anter, September 12 2019 - 6:27 AM.

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#393 Offline Manitobant - Posted September 12 2019 - 5:32 AM

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You guys are so lucky. Its gross and rainy here...

#394 Offline spartANTS - Posted September 12 2019 - 2:41 PM

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sorry manitobant 

still rain for Friday but sunny Saturday so you may be lucky.

and you canadian anter you are a beast :P



#395 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 13 2019 - 2:21 AM

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Dang. I can’t even buy a Lasius neoniger queen around here. Ya’ll can laugh, but that’s become my white whale: to find a non-parasitic Lasius queen someday.
It seems like they’re not at all prevalent down south.
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#396 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted September 13 2019 - 6:33 AM

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I can't find a single non parasitic queen.....
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#397 Offline rbarreto - Posted September 13 2019 - 6:39 AM

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Laughs in second year Lasius

 

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#398 Offline Mercutia - Posted September 13 2019 - 7:02 AM

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Dang. I can’t even buy a Lasius neoniger queen around here. Ya’ll can laugh, but that’s become my white whale: to find a non-parasitic Lasius queen someday.
It seems like they’re not at all prevalent down south.

I actually do find that I find wayyyy more parasitic Lasius queens than I do non-parasitic queens. 



#399 Offline Canadian anter - Posted September 13 2019 - 7:34 AM

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Dang. I can’t even buy a Lasius neoniger queen around here. Ya’ll can laugh, but that’s become my white whale: to find a non-parasitic Lasius queen someday.
It seems like they’re not at all prevalent down south.

I actually do find that I find wayyyy more parasitic Lasius queens than I do non-parasitic queens.
Opposite here, and ironically I'm way more interested in the parasitic ones
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#400 Offline Manitobant - Posted September 13 2019 - 1:12 PM

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And I never usually find any lasius queens whatsoever.




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