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7/23-Colorado giant nuptial flights

Started By Spazmops , Jul 23 2020 4:48 PM

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#1 Offline Spazmops - Posted July 23 2020 - 4:48 PM

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So this enormous nuptial flight just took place at the cabin I’m staying in near the rio Grande. I caught 5 wingless queens.

size: 13mm

color: dark brown with a shiny grayish gaster

nuptial flight time: 6:00 pm

Characteristics: pretty phat queen, easily spottable even in high grass

I’m hoping they aren’t parasitic, I don’t have starter colonies.

Co-owner and founder of Mountain Myrmeculture and The Menagerie Discord Server.

Ants I have:

1 Formica fusca group- 0 workers

1 Tetramorium immigrans colony-20 workers

1 Dorymyrmex insanus- 1 queen, used to have workers

1 large P. occidentalis colony- around 50 workers, plenty of brood

#2 Offline NickAnter - Posted July 23 2020 - 5:03 PM

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Niger group Lasius sp. can't go any further without looking at the teeth, and type of hairs on the antennal scapes.

VoidElecent and Spazmops like this

Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies.

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant).

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