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Started By Vendayn , May 19 2015 8:36 PM

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#41 Offline Vendayn - Posted July 17 2015 - 1:28 PM

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#42 Offline Vendayn - Posted July 17 2015 - 8:13 PM

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#43 Offline Vendayn - Posted July 17 2015 - 8:45 PM

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#44 Offline William. T - Posted July 18 2015 - 6:36 AM

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T. Sessile isn't exactly a fighter, but they can confiscate any food ASAP. They starve out the other ants quickly. One workers find a popsicle.....next thing you know half the colony is at it. That's with the T. Sessile in my yard, at least. They are reaching a stalemate with the Tetramorium SpE on the other side of the road, though. I guess they can't be foraging on my pantry there.


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1 Lasius cf. Neoniger 30 workers

1 Camponotus sp. 15 workers

20 Tetramorium SpE 30 workers

1 T. Sessile 200 workers

 

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#46 Offline Vendayn - Posted July 18 2015 - 4:44 PM

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#47 Offline Vendayn - Posted July 20 2015 - 7:25 PM

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NUUUUUUUUUUUU

Not the termites!!!


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#49 Offline Vendayn - Posted July 25 2015 - 5:46 PM

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#50 Offline LC3 - Posted July 25 2015 - 7:02 PM

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Well, bad news. The gardeners planted a bunch of new plants. With that, I see Solenopsis invicta near their new plants. I also see a few other non-native species I'm not sure of, and what looks to be Pheidole megacephala.

 

I'm pretty sure they are Pheidole megacephala, since they look exactly like the ones I saw in Costa Mesa and they also have the same soldiers. They were locating to a different area as the gardeners flooded out the new garden they planted. I saw easily over 50+ queens in an hour of me watching them, so they must have introduced a huge colony.

 

There are some others too they brought like I said, but they look to have much smaller colonies. And Solenopsis invicta are everywhere in Orange County, so that isn't too surprising for them.

 

I thought they were supposed to spray plants they bring for pests? I guess they skimped out on doing that to save money.

Go yell at them


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New target: Pheidole megacephala


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