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I was hunting ants & this happened (share your unexpected discoveries)

Started By CampoKing , Dec 22 2019 2:22 PM

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#1 Offline CampoKing - Posted December 22 2019 - 2:22 PM

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Found these adorable guys by accident hunting for carpenters. What have you guys came across in ant hunting?

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#2 Offline ponerinecat - Posted December 22 2019 - 2:26 PM

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Found these adorable guys by accident hunting for carpenters. What have you guys came across in ant hunting?

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I found mice in a log full of parasitic formica, salamanders are common, as are scorpions. I've seen vespula queens in logs, and cool isopods and springtails are common.


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#3 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted December 22 2019 - 3:12 PM

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I mostly find salamanders and spiders.

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#4 Offline Ferox_Formicae - Posted December 22 2019 - 4:01 PM

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I've found a Red Salamander when looking for Camponotus socius (which I never did find), a Dolichovespula maculata queen when hunting for queens during the winter in the mountains, tons of Myrmecophilus crickets in colonies of Crematogaster spp, Tapinoma sessile, and Nylanderia spp, lots of scorpions, a huge skink, a few Eastern Worm Snakes, Dekay's Snakes, and Red-Bellied Snakes, Green Anoles, Tropical House Geckos, a freaking Green Iguana, Mangrove Tree Crabs, lots of beetles, little bees in an abandoned Colobopsis mississippiensis twig, mice, frogs, occasionally birds, all sorts of stuff.


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#5 Offline Manitobant - Posted December 22 2019 - 7:31 PM

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I've found mice, spiders, garter snakes, cave crickets and even a cane toad while in Florida.
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#6 Online ANTdrew - Posted December 23 2019 - 4:25 AM

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My yard is the red backed salamander kingdom. Fun fact= Virginia and Tennessee have the greatest diversity of salamanders in the world. Most obscure species are found in isolated pockets in the Appalachians.
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#7 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted December 23 2019 - 10:16 AM

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My yard is the red backed salamander kingdom. Fun fact= Virginia and Tennessee have the greatest diversity of salamanders in the world. Most obscure species are found in isolated pockets in the Appalachians.


Hehe. I have definitely found dozens of salamander species in my hunts for ants. I have yet to find the elusive Tennessee Cave Salamander, though.

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#8 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted February 17 2020 - 7:46 AM

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I was once out looking for queens, and I found a groundhog or some other large rodent. Was like hiding in a hole in tree from my dog!


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#9 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 17 2020 - 7:54 AM

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The woods around my area don't have a lot besides ant lol. Sure, you'll come across the occasional coyote or fox, or even sometimes an eagle or a falcon, but that's about it besides ants and 'squitos.   


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#10 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted February 17 2020 - 8:04 AM

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haha! we have a lot of mosquito's here too!


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Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

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#11 Offline AntsDakota - Posted February 17 2020 - 8:49 AM

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haha! we have a lot of mosquito's here too!

Okay, that's not even funny....  :rolleyes:


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

#12 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 17 2020 - 9:08 AM

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August 'squitors are bad news, they are so dang ANNOYING 


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There is a important time for everything, important place for everyone, an important person for everybody, and an important ant for each and every ant keeper and myrmecologist alike

#13 Offline AntsDakota - Posted February 17 2020 - 9:14 AM

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Especially at dusk. I've become quite the expert at killing them. And they don't go to waste, either- they become ant food.


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

#14 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted February 17 2020 - 9:29 AM

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I just don't go out lol


There is a important time for everything, important place for everyone, an important person for everybody, and an important ant for each and every ant keeper and myrmecologist alike

#15 Offline AntsDakota - Posted February 17 2020 - 9:32 AM

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Then how would you find ants? I'd rather brave the mosquitoes.....


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

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