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District, Maryland, & Virginia Queen Watch

Started By IcarusSkybound , Apr 14 2018 12:16 PM

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#641 Offline AntBoi3030 - Posted June 9 2021 - 6:07 PM

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You guys are lucky you get all the flights before us.

My favorite queens/colony’s:
Pheidole Tysoni, Selonopis Molesta, Brachymyrmex Depilis, Tetramorium Immagrians, Prenolepis Imparis, Pheidole Bicirinata 

#642 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 9 2021 - 6:18 PM

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Has anyone gotten Temnothorax yet?

Yep. Lots of them at my light.

 

Nice! Still haven't found any, but I also haven't been blacklighting or anything. Just kinda wandering around the woods at night.


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#643 Offline AleeGuy - Posted June 10 2021 - 5:22 AM

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Has anyone gotten Temnothorax yet?

Yep. Lots of them at my light.
Nice! when do you catch the most alates? Around what time? I heard that from sunset-10 PM is the best time.

#644 Online ANTdrew - Posted June 10 2021 - 7:36 AM

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That's right, Ali. Basically anytime after sunset.


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#645 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 12 2021 - 7:52 PM

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Pheidole bicarinata and Pheidole dentata have started flying. I collected a queen of the former and saw several males poking their heads out of their nest for the latter.


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#646 Offline AleeGuy - Posted June 12 2021 - 7:58 PM

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At what time of the day do they fly?

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#647 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 12 2021 - 8:00 PM

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At what time of the day do they fly?

Ph. dentata fly in the early morning with the other normal species, and Ph. bicarinata fly in the late evening.


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#648 Online ANTdrew - Posted June 20 2021 - 3:21 AM

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Lots of flights yesterday in NoVa. Tetramorium flew in the morning. Lots of Nylanderia, Temnothorax, and even Colobopsis came to my light in the evening. Still waiting for Pheidole, though. Sad face emoji
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#649 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted June 20 2021 - 5:47 AM

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Lots of flights yesterday in NoVa. Tetramorium flew in the morning. Lots of Nylanderia, Temnothorax, and even Colobopsis came to my light in the evening. Still waiting for Pheidole, though. Sad face emoji

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#650 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 20 2021 - 7:14 AM

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Haven't seen but one Colo male over here. I really just need a new black light. My old one kinda kicked the bucket this last season. Also happy father's day!
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#651 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 20 2021 - 9:10 PM

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Got a few Temnothorax tonight. Saw many males but only 4 queens.
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#652 Online ANTdrew - Posted June 21 2021 - 3:11 AM

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It was actually quite windy last night, so the big flights I was expecting didn’t materialize. I did collect three Temnothorax, and I finally found one Pheidole cf bicarinata! Colobopsis were everywhere. Nylanderia were everywhere on Saturday, but there were almost none last night.

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#653 Offline AleeGuy - Posted June 21 2021 - 5:38 AM

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It was actually quite windy last night, so the big flights I was expecting didn’t materialize. I did collect three Temnothorax, and I finally found one Pheidole cf bicarinata! Colobopsis were everywhere. Nylanderia were everywhere on Saturday, but there were almost none last night.

Why this should happen everytime when I'm not in VA  :*(


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#654 Online ANTdrew - Posted June 22 2021 - 2:44 AM

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Still no big Pheidole flights. There was actually a sizable Camponotus pennsylvanicus flight. A queen came right to my light, and my buddy also got one at his!
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#655 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted June 22 2021 - 10:42 AM

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Still no big Pheidole flights. There was actually a sizable Camponotus pennsylvanicus flight. A queen came right to my light, and my buddy also got one at his!

hey! someone who catches camponotus queens at the same time as we do here in SD! all i have been hearing about is other peoples queens they caught this year that have workers now...


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#656 Online ANTdrew - Posted June 22 2021 - 10:57 AM

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Still no big Pheidole flights. There was actually a sizable Camponotus pennsylvanicus flight. A queen came right to my light, and my buddy also got one at his!

hey! someone who catches camponotus queens at the same time as we do here in SD! all i have been hearing about is other peoples queens they caught this year that have workers now...
Pretty odd, but I’ll take it!
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#657 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 22 2021 - 1:11 PM

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Still no big Pheidole flights. There was actually a sizable Camponotus pennsylvanicus flight. A queen came right to my light, and my buddy also got one at his!

hey! someone who catches camponotus queens at the same time as we do here in SD! all i have been hearing about is other peoples queens they caught this year that have workers now...

 

Mine're on their second gen... :lol:


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#658 Offline jplelito - Posted June 23 2021 - 8:00 AM

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Pheidole Heads up from around Raleigh NC to the VA folks - last two nights had big flights of Pheidole bicarinata here, and AM of 6/21 I caught a P. tysoni. Next few days will be too cool overnight (tysoni fly just prior to dawn in my experience) but when it warms up again they’ll go nuts. Dentigula and dentata will also fly. The latter two also seem to be early before dawn flyers. Don’t turn the black light off until you can see actual sunlight in the sky or you might miss half the queens. Happy hunting! More or less I’d guess this is the one or two week warning for you slightly more north of us here in NC.
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Pheidole Heads up from around Raleigh NC to the VA folks - last two nights had big flights of Pheidole bicarinata here, and AM of 6/21 I caught a P. tysoni. Next few days will be too cool overnight (tysoni fly just prior to dawn in my experience) but when it warms up again they’ll go nuts. Dentigula and dentata will also fly. The latter two also seem to be early before dawn flyers. Don’t turn the black light off until you can see actual sunlight in the sky or you might miss half the queens. Happy hunting! More or less I’d guess this is the one or two week warning for you slightly more north of us here in NC.

Duly noted! I need to set some early alarms and try some pre-dawn blacklighting.
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#660 Offline AleeGuy - Posted June 26 2021 - 6:41 PM

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Found around 30 Temnothorax queens today(there were at least 2 or 3 different spp. of them) and 1 colobopsis queen under a blacklight.
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