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how many odontomachus queens fly in a nuptial flight

Started By Antz_Straya , Nov 9 2023 7:02 PM
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#1 Offline Antz_Straya - Posted November 9 2023 - 7:03 PM

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I've found a place where odontomachus live so I'm going camping there to hunt, how many usually fly per flight?


this is in aus btw


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#2 Offline ANTdrew - Posted November 10 2023 - 2:33 AM

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Exactly 1,234 per flight. Joking aside, I doubt anyone knows more than a *rough* estimate of how many queens fly for any given species’ flights.
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#3 Offline ZATrippit - Posted November 16 2023 - 2:06 PM

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Kind of off-topic, but I would definitely suggest looking for iridomyrmex if you havent already. The flights are easy to spot-- I've found one last night and multiple in October. You can spot a flight easily since the alates scale up walls, poles, etc. Plus I've seen flights last as long as two weeks.
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#4 Offline Antz_Straya - Posted November 16 2023 - 2:56 PM

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Kind of off-topic, but I would definitely suggest looking for iridomyrmex if you havent already. The flights are easy to spot-- I've found one last night and multiple in October. You can spot a flight easily since the alates scale up walls, poles, etc. Plus I've seen flights last as long as two weeks.

i already keep a bunch of iri, they are pretty boring imo and they have been flying since august. i also have a chance to find odontomachus queens this summer


"If children don't grow up knowing about nature and appreciating it, they will not understand it, and if they don't understand it, they won't protect it. And if they don't protect it, who will?" Sir David Attenborough

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Camponotus suffusus (7 workers), C. s. bendigensis (queen with brood), Myrmecia impaternata (queen with brood)

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#5 Offline ZATrippit - Posted November 16 2023 - 6:32 PM

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Kind of off-topic, but I would definitely suggest looking for iridomyrmex if you havent already. The flights are easy to spot-- I've found one last night and multiple in October. You can spot a flight easily since the alates scale up walls, poles, etc. Plus I've seen flights last as long as two weeks.

i already keep a bunch of iri, they are pretty boring imo and they have been flying since august. i also have a chance to find odontomachus queens this summer

 

Good luck to you :)


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#6 Offline Antz_Straya - Posted November 17 2023 - 5:06 PM

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Kind of off-topic, but I would definitely suggest looking for iridomyrmex if you havent already. The flights are easy to spot-- I've found one last night and multiple in October. You can spot a flight easily since the alates scale up walls, poles, etc. Plus I've seen flights last as long as two weeks.

i already keep a bunch of iri, they are pretty boring imo and they have been flying since august. i also have a chance to find odontomachus queens this summer

 

Good luck to you :)

 

thank you  :D


"If children don't grow up knowing about nature and appreciating it, they will not understand it, and if they don't understand it, they won't protect it. And if they don't protect it, who will?" Sir David Attenborough

Currently keeping:

Camponotus suffusus (7 workers), C. s. bendigensis (queen with brood), Myrmecia impaternata (queen with brood)

Other:

Stick insect (multiple species), plants (many different types but mostly orchids)

 

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