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Dorymyrmex Insanus Flight Southern California 12/11/14


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#1 Offline Chromerust - Posted December 11 2014 - 1:53 PM

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If you guys in SoCal are interested in finding queens, Dorymyrmex flew today in Riverside. My guess is you'll be able to find these all over where you live too. If you need help identifying founding chambers I can post a pic for you guys. I think Drew already has a thread with pics on here already

#2 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 11 2014 - 2:10 PM

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Are you serious? This late in the year!? I have been seeing things that look like founding chambers all day! I just disregarded them because of the fact it is December...

#3 Offline Chromerust - Posted December 11 2014 - 2:18 PM

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Yeah if they are little piles of dirt about the size of a nickel, then it's most likely a Dorymyrmex

#4 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 11 2014 - 2:22 PM

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:o There are hundreds of them here in Simi Valley! Most of them are only a few inches apart too!

#5 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 11 2014 - 2:31 PM

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It is kind of weird I have not seen a single queen walking around though.

#6 Offline Chromerust - Posted December 11 2014 - 3:20 PM

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I've never seen one walk around either. They land in a specific spot and immediately dig

#7 Offline dspdrew - Posted December 11 2014 - 4:02 PM

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Hey everybody. Don't forget to report nuptial flights on the mating chart thread so that it gets added to the update I plan to do yearly.



#8 Offline Foogoo - Posted December 14 2014 - 12:32 PM

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Yeah if they are little piles of dirt about the size of a nickel, then it's most likely a Dorymyrmex

 

Happen to have a picture? I just walked around the sandy areas around my neighborhood where there's a few Pogonomyrmex colonies and at least one Dorymyrmex colony and couldn't find anything. Doesn't surprise me though, even most of the active nests were barely stirring.


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#9 Offline dspdrew - Posted December 14 2014 - 12:55 PM

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#10 Offline Foogoo - Posted December 15 2014 - 9:49 AM

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Thanks Drew, that helps a lot! I probably would have mistaken that for earthworm castings (which I did come across, and am pretty sure were castings).


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#11 Offline dspdrew - Posted December 15 2014 - 10:36 AM

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Yeah, those look distinctly different.



#12 Offline Foogoo - Posted December 15 2014 - 8:11 PM

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Yeah, those look distinctly different.

 

Based on your video though, the mounds look about the same size right?


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#13 Offline dspdrew - Posted December 15 2014 - 11:57 PM

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Same size, but the dirt from worms has been squeezed out of them, not picked up and dropped piece by piece.



#14 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted January 21 2015 - 5:14 PM

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There are small colonies now with nanitics emerging all over the place now- probably from the queens that flew on this date.



#15 Offline Chromerust - Posted February 14 2015 - 1:02 PM

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I saved a few of these queens just for the heck of it and I just saw a couple have a brand new worker. I didn't keep them very warm so it took longer than usual.




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