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[Loops117]

Took a 45 min walk around the block after i found alates on my car. Found a few queens.

 

43 Lasius flavus

45 Lasius neoniger

9 Parasitic Lasius sp.

2 Brachymyrmex sp.

to be exact

 

I will be using these queens for testing dirt boxes.

 

Twas a great day

 

I'll be splitting these queens up into smaller groups once the rest of my test tubes arrive.

Edited by Loops117, August 30 2017 - 9:01 PM.

[skocko76]

Wow! That's quite a catch! Over 2 queens per minute! World record!

Edited by skocko76, August 31 2017 - 5:44 AM.

[AntsMaryland]

Wow, that is amazing!

[FeedTheAnts]

Congrats, to bad no nuptial flights are happening down here

were having a cold snap or something, I would have wanted to catch some lasius.

[Loops117]

haha, i normally just take a walk around the block during heavy flights and find queens everywere on the sidewalk. I followed one queen to her hole which i then found another 15 queens inside.

Gotta say though, i lost quite a few queens due to the L.neoniger being a bully and killing off the slightly smaller L.flavus while waiting to be tubed up. My little brother and i spent a good hour with aspirators sorting out the queens.

 

Edit: Tonight or tomorrow night I'm gonna take a photo of the two species together and write out a comparison. Hopefully it'll help others from losing queens.

 

 

Today i'll be going out looking for more brachy queens. They were easy to find on dirt, but nearly invisible on cement.

Edited by Loops117, August 31 2017 - 9:58 AM.

[StopSpazzing]

Wow, nice catch. Wish it was this easy for me.