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Massachusetts Anting Thread

Started By Nathant2131 , Mar 22 2017 12:43 PM
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#261 Offline noebl1 - Posted May 16 2017 - 11:02 AM

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Yeah apparently the turned the area between my glass door and my wooden one into a nesting space so I didn't need to look too far from home. :/

DOH!!!


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#262 Offline Cindy - Posted May 16 2017 - 11:08 AM

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Yeah apparently the turned the area between my glass door and my wooden one into a nesting space so I didn't need to look too far from home. :/

DOH!!!

Bittersweet :')
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#263 Offline noebl1 - Posted May 16 2017 - 12:29 PM

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Cooling off here; dropped below 80F.  No signs of anything flying here yet.


#264 Offline Nathant2131 - Posted May 16 2017 - 12:43 PM

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Can report the same, noebl1.

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#265 Offline randeee - Posted May 16 2017 - 1:02 PM

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Fingers crossed we get some flights Thursday as it's my birthday.. lucky me. :)
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#266 Offline Nathant2131 - Posted May 16 2017 - 1:02 PM

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I just had a Myrmentoma Camponotus minor bite my arm-felt like a tiny electric shock. It actually hurt a bit.
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#267 Offline Myrmidon - Posted May 16 2017 - 2:22 PM

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There wasn't a whole lot of activity over here either. Lots of foraging though, especially C. pennsylvanicus.


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Prenolepis imparis (4 founding queens)

Camponotus pennsylvanicus (5 founding queens)

Reticulitermes flavipes (3 pairs, subterranean termite)

 

#268 Offline Nathant2131 - Posted May 16 2017 - 3:46 PM

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There wasn't a whole lot of activity over here either. Lots of foraging though, especially C. pennsylvanicus.

Same, Camponotus pennsylvanicus and the Camponotus (Myrmentoma) sp./spp. were foraging heavily in the wooded section of my backyard.

 

Also foraging in my backyard was Temnothorax longispinosus, Tetramorium cf. caespitum, Lasius cf. neoniger, and Formica (fusca-group) sp./spp.

 

Oh, and I checked on my P. imparis queens today- there was a semi-explosion of larvae!


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#269 Offline Myrmidon - Posted May 16 2017 - 4:38 PM

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Same, Camponotus pennsylvanicus and the Camponotus (Myrmentoma) sp./spp. were foraging heavily in the wooded section of my backyard.

 

 

 

Also foraging in my backyard was Temnothorax longispinosus, Tetramorium cf. caespitum, Lasius cf. neoniger, and Formica (fusca-group) sp./spp.

 

Oh, and I checked on my P. imparis queens today- there was a semi-explosion of larvae!

 

 

Yeah, I would totally get excited when I would see a major scurry across my patio but alas, no queens. They were probably hunting all those little green caterpillars that were literally hanging off all the trees.

 

Congrats on the larvae! 


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Prenolepis imparis (4 founding queens)

Camponotus pennsylvanicus (5 founding queens)

Reticulitermes flavipes (3 pairs, subterranean termite)

 

#270 Offline akaant - Posted May 16 2017 - 7:18 PM

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I found some males but no queens today. I seen 100's of termite alates under a rock if anyone was interested in keeping them.


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Aphaenogaster sp

Camponotus americanus, castaneus, chromaiodes, novaeboracensis, pennsylvanicus.

Crematogaster sp

tetramorium immigrans

Formica sp

 

 

 

#271 Offline Cindy - Posted May 17 2017 - 4:52 AM

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Finds from yesterday.

 

Bonus pic: C. Nearticus workers coming out of my door frame.


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#272 Offline Nathant2131 - Posted May 17 2017 - 10:45 AM

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Anything flying by you guys? Nothing here it appears
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#273 Offline zkublin - Posted May 17 2017 - 10:55 AM

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Anything flying by you guys? Nothing here it appears
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Nothing  :*( .  It is 90 degrees and humid and it rained a day or so ago.  Camp. should be flying today/tonight!


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#274 Offline Myrmidon - Posted May 17 2017 - 10:58 AM

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C. novaeboracensis at the base of a dead tree stump in my yard. C. nearticus (also found near my door frame... very similar to Cindy!). Both have alates swarming/leaving their entrances. No actual flights but I just literally took this now.. Queens are literally peaking through the entrances and pushing out the males.

 

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Keeper of:

 

Prenolepis imparis (4 founding queens)

Camponotus pennsylvanicus (5 founding queens)

Reticulitermes flavipes (3 pairs, subterranean termite)

 

#275 Offline noebl1 - Posted May 17 2017 - 11:53 AM

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It's pretty gusty up here.  Nothing yet but parasitic Lasius, but still early.  If nothing today, I'd be really surprised if nothing tomorrow either.


#276 Offline Myrmidon - Posted May 17 2017 - 12:35 PM

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The C. nearticus are flying now - looks like all the males are jumping for their lives to make way for the queens at the entrance.  :lol:

 

Also might be helpful to post some temperature & time stuff for data keeping:

 

4:35 pm

91 degrees, Sunny

Humidity at 29%

Wind: WSW 14 mph

Western MA (Waltham)


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Keeper of:

 

Prenolepis imparis (4 founding queens)

Camponotus pennsylvanicus (5 founding queens)

Reticulitermes flavipes (3 pairs, subterranean termite)

 

#277 Offline Nathant2131 - Posted May 17 2017 - 12:36 PM

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I took a trek thorough the Dracut-Lowell state forest. Just foraging, not one alate spotted.

Lots of Lasius cf. umbratus queens, though. LOTS of diversity in the forest, too.

Edited by Nathant2131, May 17 2017 - 12:36 PM.

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#278 Offline Cindy - Posted May 17 2017 - 1:13 PM

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The C. nearticus are flying now - looks like all the males are jumping for their lives to make way for the queens at the entrance.  :lol:
 
Also might be helpful to post some temperature & time stuff for data keeping:
 
4:35 pm
91 degrees, Sunny
Humidity at 29%
Wind: WSW 14 mph
Western MA (Waltham)


Thank goodness just got off work. Gonna head home then!
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#279 Offline Myrmidon - Posted May 17 2017 - 2:47 PM

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C. novaeboracensis flying now. Completely swarming the tree stump! This is the species I wanted!! Ahhhh!

 

Time: 6:44 pm

Humidity: 33%

Temp: 88 Degrees F, Sunny

Wind: 14 mph


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Keeper of:

 

Prenolepis imparis (4 founding queens)

Camponotus pennsylvanicus (5 founding queens)

Reticulitermes flavipes (3 pairs, subterranean termite)

 

#280 Offline Cindy - Posted May 17 2017 - 2:48 PM

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Holy smokes. It seems that I've missed the big flight. Not a single alate to be seen (like nate) when I checked the nest at my house. :(
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