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[aznphenom]

Myrmecocystus sp migh fly where I live

Which sp?

[United-Ants]

Myrmecocystus cf mendax

[UtahAnts]

Nice, did you see any alates outside of the nest? Or do they usually fly around this time of the year in your area?

[United-Ants]

Nice, did you see any alates outside of the nest? Or do they usually fly around this time of the year in your area?

found alates outside of the nest

[United-Ants]

Pheidole sp flying right now

[United-Ants]

Termites are flying

[UtahAnts]

Nice, all we have up here is Tetramorium flights right now. Any more news on the mendax?

[United-Ants]

Nice, all we have up here is Tetramorium flights right now. Any more news on the mendax?

found a dead queen 

ants that had flights  tonight

undefined  sp 

solenpsis molesta

Pheidole sp  

Liometopum locusum   just males

[United-Ants]

Pogonomyrmex cf occidentalis had a flight to day found around 15 queens

[ANTdrew]

Are you willing to sell any of those?

[United-Ants]

Yes Will sell when they get workers

[FloridaAnts]

Are you willing to sell any of those?

If only Florida had that species unregulated for shipping without permits.

[United-Ants]

Found a dead leomeptum loucosum queen to day will look for some tonight

[UtahAnts]

 Seen Camponotus herculeanus and Formica sp. queens during the last week. I'm planning on going near price to look for pots soon, just need some good rainfall

[United-Ants]

Here where I live we got some rain

[UtahAnts]

On 7/16/22 I went hiking near woodside, a ghost town south of Price, after a rainstorm came through the area. Species I saw:

Pogonomrmex rugosus

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pogonomyrmex barbatus

Pheidole sp.

Myrmecocystus mexicanus

Myrmecocosytus cf. mendax Formica sp.

Unknown species, see below

 

Out of those I found founding queens of: Pogonomrmex rugosus, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis, Pheidole species, and Myrmecocystus mexicanus. The harvesters and Pheidole flew around 8 PM, the navajo queen was in a founding chamber from the previous evening after the rainstorm.

 

Weather:

Rained the afternoon of the day before between 0.2 and 0.4 inches in the general area, large flash floods were caused

Wind was about 15 mph at 3 PM, with lower wind speeds down to 5 mph at 9 PM as the day progressed

Temp: High of 85, Low of 62

Lowest humidity during the day was about 40%

 

 

Species in need of ID

 

 

 

A Horned Lizard cooling off in a shadow

 

 

 

Many of the queens were found in deep washes, made muddy after the recent flash floods. This one was rather small, but Pogonomyrmex rugosus queens were still found here 

 

 

 

Edited by UtahAnts, July 18 2024 - 8:07 AM.

[lazyant]

That horned lizards reminds me of my reptile keeping days and angry beardies!

That ant seems to be Dorymyrmex bicolor, but I dunno' it looks decently large...

[NickAnter]

I agree on D. bicolor.

[UtahAnts]

Thanks for the IDs, I think you guys are right

 

Some more Pogonomyrmex occidentalis flights in Vineyard today after a large thunderstorm came through the day before. The flights were quite small compared to the hundreds of thousands that fly in a few weeks, but I still managed to find several dozen mated queens.

 

Weather for 7/19/22:

Large thunderstorm day before with about 0.2 inches of rain

Flights began at 11:30 and stopped around 1:30

5 mph winds

40% humidity

Sparse cloud cover

 

The drones came first and swarmed the top of this tree, with the qeens coming maybe 10 minutes after. If you look closely you'll notice the tiny flying insects around the top. This species seems to prefer these particular trees when staging a nuptial flight.

 

 

 

[United-Ants]

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis and a small Pogonomyrmex sp had a flight in Salina today