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[Volant]

Hello,

 

    I'm new to ant keeping and looking for my first queen. Today morning there was a rainstorm. After it ended I started looking around for some queens. I couldn't find any. Are there any nuptial flights during the month of May in Southern New York.If there are, Are there any tips to capture/find queens?

 

 

Thanks

 

 

[noebl1]

Camponotus will be flying very soon. If temps get into the upper 70s/80s this week, look in the late afternoon/early evening for them.

[Winston]

According to some other people, and myself it seems at least in Northern New Jersey, there was a mass amount of Camponotus Pennsylvanicus nuptial flights, I'm assuming environmental queue's clicked. Look out for camponotus queens. An unorthodox method to catching queens, that has been working successfully for me is lifting up loose bark on fallen trees, or digging around a couple cm's deep into rotted logs, I have found 4 queens in their founding stages, it is usually fairly easy to capture the queen if she has her eggs already as she will be sitting around passively, the tricky part is getting the eggs/brood safely into the container/test tube setup, or if she has her first set of workers. But this has worked fairly well for me so wanted to suggest it. Good Luck.

[disasterants]

Hello,

 

    I'm new to ant keeping and looking for my first queen. Today morning there was a rainstorm. After it ended I started looking around for some queens. I couldn't find any. Are there any nuptial flights during the month of May in Southern New York.If there are, Are there any tips to capture/find queens?

 

 

Thanks

I saw a male camponotus yesterday; they're officially flying.

[Reevak]

I've seen Camponotus flights within the past week. Western New York

[Major]

I've seen some Camponotus and myrmica. (I suspect the myrmica was from last year)