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[dspdrew]

Probably not. I found them along the creek/wash near Cleghorn Rd and the 15.

[VoidElecent]

Any Dorymyrmex action out there yet?

[nurbs]

Any Dorymyrmex action out there yet?

 

Only the most amazing ant species in the entire Animal Kingdom. The Easter Egg of Anting. Every antkeeper's wet dream.

 

I dug up one near Palm Springs the other month.

[YsTheAnt]

Any Dorymyrmex action out there yet?

Only the most amazing ant species in the entire Animal Kingdom. The Easter Egg of Anting. Every antkeeper's wet dream.

I dug up one near Palm Springs the other month.

But actually, please tell me what makes them so special to you????

Edited by YsTheAnt, April 4 2018 - 5:03 PM.

[Enderz]

 

 

Any Dorymyrmex action out there yet?

Only the most amazing ant species in the entire Animal Kingdom. The Easter Egg of Anting. Every antkeeper's wet dream.

I dug up one near Palm Springs the other month.

ROFL XD

But actually, please tell me what makes them so special to you????

Probably that he finds so many of them that he HAS to love them or he would just throw many of them out.

[dspdrew]

Assuming Camponotus hasn't already flown in Mount Baldy, they should be flying Monday and Tuesday. The temperatures are supposed to jump up 10 degrees. Mount Baldy should have a high of about 75 and should be around 68 when it gets dark.

 

Edit: Actually I just checked again and it looks like that just went down the drain. It says 61 now when it's dark. I don't think that is going to cut it. Since we can't seem to get a decent heatwave, it's going to be impossible to know when these things fly.

Edited by dspdrew, April 7 2018 - 8:31 PM.

[nurbs]

Assuming Camponotus hasn't already flown in Mount Baldy, they should be flying Monday and Tuesday. The temperatures are supposed to jump up 10 degrees. Mount Baldy should have a high of about 75 and should be around 68 when it gets dark.

 

Edit: Actually I just checked again and it looks like that just went down the drain. It says 61 now when it's dark. I don't think that is going to cut it. Since we can't seem to get a decent heatwave, it's going to be impossible to know when these things fly.

 

Stop looking at the "feels like" temp Mr. Admin.

 

See you guys there!

[dspdrew]

Stop looking at the "feels like" temp Mr. Admin.

 

I am so sick and tired of "weather" sites giving this "feels like" temperature as if it's the actual temperature. It's not 'till you look closer at it that you see that's not the actual temperature. Why the hell do I care what someone thinks it feels like? Is this what science is now? The last I checked temperature was a fact, not an opinion.

 

Apparently all this time I've been using 1Weather on my phone, I haven't been getting real temperatures. That's ridiculous. Is everything designed for idiots these days?

[nurbs]

 

Stop looking at the "feels like" temp Mr. Admin.

 

I am so sick and tired of "weather" sites giving this "feels like" temperature as if it's the actual temperature. It's not 'till you look closer at it that you see that's not the actual temperature. Why the hell do I care what someone thinks it feels like? Is this what science is now? The last I checked temperature was a fact, not an opinion.

 

Apparently all this time I've been using 1Weather on my phone, I haven't been getting real temperatures. That's ridiculous. Is everything designed for idiots these days?

 

 

Tell us how you really feel. I should take a screenshot of our chats. Drew and weather rage 

[Solenoqueen]

Oh gosh. Wonder what is flying in San Diego, I can never tell 

[anttics]

Feelings have superseded facts in this century. lol. weather is acting up. no rain what so ever. unless I'm miss informed

[Wilbo62]

Not to try and start anything but, when it says "Today it feels like X temperature" what they are doing is taking into account the wind and humidity. Think of it like this: your inside and your burning hot so to cool off you turn a fan on.That fan isn't actually changing the temperature of the room its just moving air so that it feels cooler to humans (Humidity works similarly). Now weather sites saying what it feels like may not be practical to anting, but to someone deciding if they should go out and take a walk its fairly useful.

Edited by Wilbo62, April 8 2018 - 12:22 PM.

[dspdrew]

Not to try and start anything but, when it says "Today it feels like X temperature" what they are doing is taking into account the wind and humidity. Think of it like this: your inside and your burning hot so to cool off you turn a fan on.That fan isn't actually changing the temperature of the room its just moving air so that it feels cooler to humans (Humidity works similarly). Now weather sites saying what it feels like may not be practical to anting, but to someone deciding if they should go out and take a walk its fairly useful.

 

I know that's what they are doing. It is still not the temperature. When it says "temperature", I expect to see the temperature. Thermometers tell the temperature, and it doesn't take some sort of formula developed by someone to ultimately reach what is still a subjective result. What something feels like is perception, and cannot be measured.

[dspdrew]

The temps have dropped another two degrees now, so two more and they will have the same conditions they had last week. If that's good enough for Camponotus to fly, then it already happened last week.

[Wilbo62]

 

Not to try and start anything but, when it says "Today it feels like X temperature" what they are doing is taking into account the wind and humidity. Think of it like this: your inside and your burning hot so to cool off you turn a fan on.That fan isn't actually changing the temperature of the room its just moving air so that it feels cooler to humans (Humidity works similarly). Now weather sites saying what it feels like may not be practical to anting, but to someone deciding if they should go out and take a walk its fairly useful.

 

I know that's what they are doing. It is still not the temperature. When it says "temperature", I expect to see the temperature. Thermometers tell the temperature, and it doesn't take some sort of formula developed by someone to ultimately reach what is still a subjective result. What something feels like is perception, and cannot be measured.

 

What I was getting at is that its more practical for the average Joe to know what it feels like than to know what it is. However I do agree that it should be more clear, that can be pretty annoying.

[AntsCalifornia]

Does this mean nothing is flying Monday?

 

The temps have dropped another two degrees now, so two more and they will have the same conditions they had last week. If that's good enough for Camponotus to fly, then it already happened last week.

[dspdrew]

 

Does this mean nothing is flying Monday?

 

The temps have dropped another two degrees now, so two more and they will have the same conditions they had last week. If that's good enough for Camponotus to fly, then it already happened last week.

 

 

Without a real heatwave, it's too hard to know for sure.

[anttics]

a question that might have been answered before. I go hiking on Simi all the time. yesterday. Sunday my fav. spot was at 75 degrees at 830pm. perfect conditions for camp flights. but it has not rain since March last rains. do you guys think something flew. even after 3 weeks since last rain. I could not go Sunday night to check. my girlfriend was really mad when I told her i might go looking for ants Sunday night. what do you guys think.

[Scrixx]

Welp. Caught a Myrmecocystus testaceus and it died in the one hour it took to get home. I wonder if my test tubes have some toxic stuff in them as I lost a few Camponotus sansabeanus by the time I got home the other week as well, another two are halfway paralyzed. Lesson learned but it sucks to lose my first M. testaceus queen. I'll be washing all of my unused test tubes again and I'll use a cotton ball to rub the insides. I'm pretty upset.

 

In other news.. Caught 3 C. sansabeanus, 1 Solenopsis sp., 1 M. testaceus that didn't even get to found. 

 

Solenopsis sp. 

 

It's pretty hard getting good photos of something that keeps moving.

[dspdrew]

Yeah what a waste tonight was. I had a feeling they might have already flown. Now I'm pretty sure that's what happened, seeing all those Camponotus founding chambers.

 

That Solenopsis looks strange. I'm not sure what species that is.