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#1 Offline Alza - Posted September 8 2014 - 5:55 PM

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I took about 20 videos of different xyloni's fighting argentine ants

#2 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 8 2014 - 5:55 PM

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Wow nice! Please post them, finally you post ant related stuff.



#3 Offline Alza - Posted September 8 2014 - 5:56 PM

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When I figure out how to I will

#4 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 8 2014 - 5:58 PM

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Post them on youtube, then just put the link into a post and the forum will automatically show the video.



#5 Offline Alza - Posted September 8 2014 - 6:04 PM

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K, also the argentine ants completely killed off the front lines.

#6 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 8 2014 - 6:08 PM

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Same with the Messor pergandei and Pogonomyrmex rugosus I saw in the desert.



#7 Offline dermy - Posted September 8 2014 - 6:25 PM

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Can't wait for the videos.



#8 Offline Alza - Posted September 8 2014 - 6:36 PM

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Nor can I

#9 Offline DesertAntz - Posted September 8 2014 - 9:05 PM

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Ant battles are always epic. 

 

Question, are there argentine ants in Arizona? 


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#10 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 8 2014 - 9:13 PM

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are there argentine ants in Arizona? 

 

Yeah, there are argentine ants everywhere.  :(



#11 Offline DesertAntz - Posted September 8 2014 - 9:17 PM

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Is there any native species we have in North America that can compete with them? 


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#12 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 8 2014 - 9:18 PM

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Nylanderia seems to have driven them out of Simi Valley, but they are not native either...



#13 Offline dspdrew - Posted September 10 2014 - 5:49 AM

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Yeah, there are argentine ants everywhere.  :(

I don't think they're everywhere. Without looking anything up, I know for sure that California is one of the main places where they are though. If they are in your area of the US, then they will usually only be found in the city where there's lots of water.



#14 Offline Myrmicinae - Posted September 10 2014 - 9:43 AM

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Yeah - they can't withstand dry conditions as well as most native western species.  It seems to me that it is our extreme modification of the environment that allows them to survive at all.

 

Also, here is a study somewhat related to this topic - "Aggressive interactions between Solenopsis invicta and Linepithema humile under laboratory conditions."

http://www.ncbi.nlm....pubmed/17370822


Edited by Myrmicinae, September 10 2014 - 9:48 AM.

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