Colorado Nupital Flights

Where and when are you finding queen ants? A section to share nuptial flight schedules by ant species and locality

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Cal113
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Re: Colorado Nupital Flights

Post: # 18519Post Cal113
Sat Mar 25, 2017 10:06 pm

It didn't work
Keeper of:

x3 Tetramorium caespitum queens (small colonies);
x1 Pogonomyrmex barbatus (med colony)
x1 Formica fusca single queen; (small colony)
x2 Unknown sp.; (founding)
x1 Temnothorax rugatalus (med colony)

Cal113
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Re: Colorado Nupital Flights

Post: # 18520Post Cal113
Sat Mar 25, 2017 10:07 pm

For some reason it says board attachment quota reached... :x :x :cry:
Keeper of:

x3 Tetramorium caespitum queens (small colonies);
x1 Pogonomyrmex barbatus (med colony)
x1 Formica fusca single queen; (small colony)
x2 Unknown sp.; (founding)
x1 Temnothorax rugatalus (med colony)

Cal113
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Re: Colorado Nupital Flights

Post: # 18521Post Cal113
Sat Mar 25, 2017 10:18 pm

Here, I got it to work:


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Keeper of:

x3 Tetramorium caespitum queens (small colonies);
x1 Pogonomyrmex barbatus (med colony)
x1 Formica fusca single queen; (small colony)
x2 Unknown sp.; (founding)
x1 Temnothorax rugatalus (med colony)

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colo3000
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Location: Longmont, CO

Re: Colorado Nupital Flights

Post: # 18522Post colo3000
Sat Mar 25, 2017 10:23 pm

Still not seeing the pictures
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Cal113
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Re: Colorado Nupital Flights

Post: # 18528Post Cal113
Sun Mar 26, 2017 11:13 am

dang.... it works for me, how would we contact an admin?
Keeper of:

x3 Tetramorium caespitum queens (small colonies);
x1 Pogonomyrmex barbatus (med colony)
x1 Formica fusca single queen; (small colony)
x2 Unknown sp.; (founding)
x1 Temnothorax rugatalus (med colony)

Martialis
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Re: Colorado Nupital Flights

Post: # 18531Post Martialis
Sun Mar 26, 2017 1:08 pm

Cal, make sure that you're putting them in shared albums with google photos if you want to use google. I've also made the error of trying to share images directly from my inbox.
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Cal113
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Re: Colorado Nupital Flights

Post: # 18538Post Cal113
Sun Mar 26, 2017 9:15 pm

Okay I'll try that later
Keeper of:

x3 Tetramorium caespitum queens (small colonies);
x1 Pogonomyrmex barbatus (med colony)
x1 Formica fusca single queen; (small colony)
x2 Unknown sp.; (founding)
x1 Temnothorax rugatalus (med colony)

Cal113
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Re: Colorado Nupital Flights

Post: # 18574Post Cal113
Mon Mar 27, 2017 6:28 pm

Do you guys have any opinions on whether its ok morally to dig up a colony? BTW tried the shared album mybe work now :shock: ,

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or the links here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3LnM0l44gHJaTZHeFJ0b2NGVmNEcGdsVl9Gb2dwZDc1bjIw
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3LnM0l44gHJTGt4LXNqNTRLUFVKTjN2d2NsSGFtUG9uLXp3
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3LnM0l44gHJTjZhM3VvNGk4cGw5dkRPeTB6X1R0VENVQVQ4
Keeper of:

x3 Tetramorium caespitum queens (small colonies);
x1 Pogonomyrmex barbatus (med colony)
x1 Formica fusca single queen; (small colony)
x2 Unknown sp.; (founding)
x1 Temnothorax rugatalus (med colony)

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colo3000
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Re: Colorado Nupital Flights

Post: # 18575Post colo3000
Mon Mar 27, 2017 6:33 pm

It is very difficult to dig up a colony and actually get the queen and alive. I'd just advise waiting for nuptial flights. I think it's cooler to watch a queen develop her colony from the beginning personally.
-Colo3000

Cal113
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Re: Colorado Nupital Flights

Post: # 18601Post Cal113
Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:08 pm

did the pictures work?
Keeper of:

x3 Tetramorium caespitum queens (small colonies);
x1 Pogonomyrmex barbatus (med colony)
x1 Formica fusca single queen; (small colony)
x2 Unknown sp.; (founding)
x1 Temnothorax rugatalus (med colony)

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