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[MojaveAnts]

The search feature on this forum as well as searching YouTube works really well.

[Tanks]

Usually during, you want to go 12-2 pm. That's when I find most. Just dig the queens with a shovel, it'll be fine. Usually, the chambers are a hole with a bit of a messy hill around it.

Ok thanks! My plans changed so I will be able to go queen catching on the day they should fly, but I will keep this in mind.One more thing, what time should I go to catch queens at? 

[AntsCali098]

12-2 pm, 85+ degrees

Edited by AntsCali098, June 16 2023 - 4:04 PM.

[Tanks]

12-2 pm, 85+ degrees

Can I go at 3:30PM-4:30PM to catch queens? Because that's when it will get to 85 degrees. From 12-2pm will only be 83, or is that good enough? Or maybe if I go at 3:30-4:30PM they will have already flew and started digging their chambers and I can just grab them while they dig, or if they already have a shallow camber than it might make it easier for me to dig the queens up? What do you guys think?

Edited by Tanks, June 16 2023 - 7:17 PM.

[Scrixx]

I went looking for gold but found queens instead. It's a sign to get back into the hobby lol

 

No Pogonomyrmex flew in my area but got Formica sp., Solenopsis sp., Surprisingly caught a few Liometopum sp.? Thought they only flew at night. Also caught a small queen species that I'm not sure about.

[AntsCali098]

Nice catches!

Pogonomrymex haven't flown here yet to my knowledge, it's just not hot enough, funny for socal.

Maybe you can post an id thread of the unidentified queen.

[Tanks]

Nice catches!

Pogonomrymex haven't flown here yet to my knowledge, it's just not hot enough, funny for socal.

Maybe you can post an id thread of the unidentified queen.

Pogonomyrmex flew today, I caught 25 of them

Edited by Tanks, June 17 2023 - 6:38 PM.

[AntsCali098]

Oh damn just on a dirt trail?

[Tanks]

Oh damn just on a dirt trail?

Yeah, I could of caught more but it would have been a lot to manage. It was also the first colony along the trail so I probably could have caught way more.

[AntsCali098]

Does anyone know if they'll fly again? Didn't expect them at all today.

[MojaveAnts]

Weird.. the recent rains weren't even technically Monsoon either as they were with a cold front coming from the Northern pressure and not off the West with warmth like a true Monsoon summer precipitation. For the Mojave desert area anyways. More of a slow long non-stormy cold rain days vs. quick fast thunder-lightning packed downpours.

[AntObserver]

I'm gonna go searching for queens around Mescal Wildlife Sanctuary, Llano, Little Rock area on July 1st or 2nd. It’s been an unusual wet year but now it’s warming up quick so hopefully I’ll have some luck!

[100lols]

Anting today at Daley Ranch near Escondido, CA. Wish me luck!

[Tanks]

When and where do you guys catch your Camponotus queens in SoCal? I'm looking into catching larger species like CA 02 or vicinus for next time they fly.

[dspdrew]

When and where do you guys catch your campo queens in SoCal? I'm looking into catching larger species like CA 02 or vicinus for next time they fly.

Check the mountains in early spring.

[Tanks]

 

When and where do you guys catch your Camponotus queens in SoCal? I'm looking into catching larger species like CA 02 or vicinus for next time they fly.

Check the mountains in early spring.

 

Which mountains is there like a specific mountain that's best. Are their flights triggered by rain? Also I sent you a dm about buying somthing from your shop.

Edited by Tanks, June 28 2023 - 4:34 PM.

[AntsCali098]

When and where do you guys catch your Camponotus queens in SoCal? I'm looking into catching larger species like CA 02 or vicinus for next time they fly.

Check the mountains in early spring.

Which mountains is there like a specific mountain that's best. Are their flights triggered by rain? Also I sent you a dm about buying somthing from your shop.

Not really, just go to any forest or mountain. I found a bunch on a small heat spike near Cleveland national Forest.

[FinWins]

When is the best time to go looking for stigmatomma pallipes?

[ReignofRage]

Flights occur in mid- to late-summer, if that's what you mean. Otherwise, it doesn't particularly matter what time of year you search for colonies.

[Tanks]

So on Saturday it's going to be 95 degrees out at a spot I might go anting at. I looked on Inaturalist and there are a a good amount of different sightings of species like Myrecoctstus wheeleri, Pogonomyrmex californicus  (already caught a enough of them), fusca group Formica, molesta group Solenopsis, Solenopsis xyloni, some sorta temnothorax, and dorymyrmex bicolor. What of these species do you guys think will fly on saturday?

Edited by Tanks, July 1 2023 - 12:04 AM.