New York Nuptial Flight Sightings Thread

[nightxwolf88]

So seems to be a late small camponotus flight here in central new York state. On lunch now and found one crossing the road and this morning at 11 one was crossing a gravel path.

[nightxwolf88]

Tetramorium queens flew today as well finding them in my driveway. Wish pheidole would show up haha

[nightxwolf88]

Some kind of lasius sp is flying now as well as ponera here in central ny

[MCWren]

Some kind of lasius sp is flying now as well as ponera here in central ny

I found a Ponera pennsylvanica queen yesterday.

[nightxwolf88]

Saw a lot of ponera today just picked up a couple tho

[nightxwolf88]

Finding creamatogaster in my pool now here in cny and some small sp idk yet ill post pics

[MCWren]

Yesterday, I saw a ton of male alates at my friend's house in the late afternoon. I even had 4 or 5 land on me. Unfortunately, I didn't see any queens, and I also didn't have any containers on me.

[MCWren]

I made the exact same post in the PA nuptial flight sightings thread: My mom told me that her friends in Westchester county NY saw a massive citronella ant (Lasius social parasite sp.) nuptial flight, so large that they couldn't go outside without being hit by the alates. Sorry I'm late, this was actually a few days ago.

[Sushifish]

im from staten island ny , anyone in the area have any luck lately?

[MCWren]

Yesterday and today there were huge nuptial flights of Lasius sp. social parasites (possibly umbratus but idk). Yesterday, I saw a bunch of workers above ground (unusual for the generally subterranean "citronella ants") protecting the alates as they left the nest. I lifted up a leaf, and I found a dealate queen, which I hope is the queen of that colony. I collected her, and put her in a test tube with around 25 workers.