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[Kojeware]

 

I found a P. imparis nest with alates yesterday, hoping to stumble across one soon.

 

Do P. imparis queens form claustral cells, or do you need to catch 'em the day of their flight?

 

What else do you think they do? Have Scotty beam them up? 

 

On a more serious note, there was a MASSIVE flight in my area so I now have 8 queens in total, 2 with wings and one 3 queen and one 2 queen colony, wish me luck with them! 

 

EDIT: I'm probably not going to catch anymore since I think 8 is enough 

 

 

 

My question was more along the lines of whether P. Imparis forms shallow claustral chambers (that could be dug up), or dig deep straight away.

[Canadian anter]

 

 

I found a P. imparis nest with alates yesterday, hoping to stumble across one soon.

 

Do P. imparis queens form claustral cells, or do you need to catch 'em the day of their flight?

 

What else do you think they do? Have Scotty beam them up? 

 

On a more serious note, there was a MASSIVE flight in my area so I now have 8 queens in total, 2 with wings and one 3 queen and one 2 queen colony, wish me luck with them! 

 

EDIT: I'm probably not going to catch anymore since I think 8 is enough 

 

 

 

My question was more along the lines of whether P. Imparis forms shallow claustral chambers (that could be dug up), or dig deep straight away.

 

They can most likely be found under rocks for a day after the flight. However, since the nests are so deep to begin with, I wouldn't place my bets on it.

[rbarreto]

Anyone know roughly when Camponotus flew here in Ontario last year?

[Lazarus]

We caught our four Camponotus Noveaboracensis queens mid June last year. Amazed with the progression since taking them out of hibernation this year. One colony is already at 29 workers and we've barely begun the summer. Over 100 workers across those four colonies. And while there aren't any majors yet, some are easily twice the size of the nanitics.

[Canadian anter]

I caught mine late May-Early June

[Kojeware]

to anyone still interested in Prenolepis:

I'm pretty sure that there will be a small flight going on today in the Kitchener-Waterloo area.

[Canadian anter]

Conditions today are good for camponotus flights. I wouldn't count on it, but it is a possibility.

[Penguin]

Any luck? I was out of town for the weekend and didn't have the chance to catch anything (I didn't see anything anyway)

[Lazarus]

No luck for me this weekend. But every time I went out I had my eyes looking at the ground.

[Canadian anter]

Guys sorry. I botched the measurements. Well, keep an eye out for a night above 20 degrees.

[ken14400]

someone should create a list of what kind of species exists in Canada so we know whether we can find the species in Canada or not, cause the ant spotting chart is for the entire NA and Canada don't seem to have most species that the US have 

[rbarreto]

Here is already a list that I believe is relatively accurate: http://antmaps.org/?

 

Simply go to the link, press "Diversity View", then click on the province of Ontario. This will provide a list of all the species in Ontario (that they have on record).

[ken14400]

yeah but there's some species that are not natives that they don't show on there 

[rbarreto]

Which species are you referring to?

[ken14400]

for example myrmica rubra

[rbarreto]

I guess that is true, They also do not list Tetramorium immigrans.

 

Upon further inspection, the list it only pertains to native species.

Edited by rbarreto, May 7 2018 - 7:29 AM.

[ken14400]

I guess that is true, They also do not list Tetramorium immigrans.

 

Upon further inspection, the list it only pertains to native species.

exactly my point so i feel like if we wrote everything that actually exist in ontario here it would be nicer for most of us..

[rbarreto]

Monomorium pharaonis and Wasmannia auropunctata  are other ones we could add, although these are only indoor introduced.

Edited by rbarreto, May 7 2018 - 7:48 AM.

[ken14400]

i really want a stigmatomma queen

[Canadian anter]

Myrmica rubra shows on "species range". We can find the introduced species specifically.