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Found in CA desert .7/16

Started By benxixi , Jul 18 2022 8:03 AM

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#1 Offline benxixi - Posted July 18 2022 - 8:03 AM

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found in desert when anting ,

I thought it is big head ant ,but it is bigger than Pheidole I have seen .

does anyone know this ?

 

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#2 Offline benxixi - Posted July 18 2022 - 8:05 AM

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I think I find it ,,,Pheidole hyatti :) 


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#3 Offline United-Ants - Posted July 18 2022 - 8:22 AM

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Pheidole hyatti

#4 Offline Nathan_Everard - Posted July 18 2022 - 9:15 AM

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Nice you at least caught something


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#5 Offline benxixi - Posted July 18 2022 - 9:33 AM

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Nice you at least caught something


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yep, 


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#6 Offline ReignofRage - Posted July 18 2022 - 4:54 PM

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I would lean more towards P. vistana or P. desertorum rather than P. hyatti on this one.


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#7 Offline Broncos - Posted July 19 2022 - 9:20 PM

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Where did you go? I checked spots that recently had rain and I didn’t find anything.
Where did you go? I checked spots that recently had rain and I didn’t find anything.

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#8 Offline dspdrew - Posted July 20 2022 - 9:40 AM

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P. hyatti are everywhere out there. It looks fairly glossy too, as they are.


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#9 Offline ZTYguy - Posted July 20 2022 - 4:44 PM

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Where did you go? I checked spots that recently had rain and I didn’t find anything.Where did you go? I checked spots that recently had rain and I didn’t find anything.


You need to go the day of rain or at least the next day. Anything after that and the queens will be 2 feet underground.
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#10 Offline Nathan_Everard - Posted July 20 2022 - 4:46 PM

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I don’t think they will dig that deep under ground that fast


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#11 Offline Broncos - Posted July 20 2022 - 5:04 PM

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Where did you go? I checked spots that recently had rain and I didn’t find anything.Where did you go? I checked spots that recently had rain and I didn’t find anything.

You need to go the day of rain or at least the next day. Anything after that and the queens will be 2 feet underground.
Yea I went exactly a day after some heavy rain. When I didn’t find anything, I went to where it had rained an hour before, still nothing. Which area did you go looking?

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#12 Offline dspdrew - Posted July 20 2022 - 5:12 PM

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Where did you go? I checked spots that recently had rain and I didn’t find anything.Where did you go? I checked spots that recently had rain and I didn’t find anything.

You need to go the day of rain or at least the next day. Anything after that and the queens will be 2 feet underground.
Yea I went exactly a day after some heavy rain. When I didn’t find anything, I went to where it had rained an hour before, still nothing. Which area did you go looking?

 

 

Where were you looking, and what day?


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#13 Offline Broncos - Posted July 21 2022 - 1:53 PM

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Where did you go? I checked spots that recently had rain and I didn’t find anything.Where did you go? I checked spots that recently had rain and I didn’t find anything.

You need to go the day of rain or at least the next day. Anything after that and the queens will be 2 feet underground.
Yea I went exactly a day after some heavy rain. When I didn’t find anything, I went to where it had rained an hour before, still nothing. Which area did you go looking?

Where were you looking, and what day?

Not 100% sure you were quoting me, but I went to apple valley last Saturday… it had just rained.

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#14 Offline ZTYguy - Posted July 21 2022 - 2:29 PM

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I don’t think they will dig that deep under ground that fast


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They do.
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#15 Offline Nathan_Everard - Posted July 21 2022 - 2:32 PM

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That’s crazy do you think queens will fly if it doesn’t rain sense in my area it doesn’t really rain in the summer and I’m looking for harvester queens


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