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RAGEOWL
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Your opinion needed

Post: # 36181Post RAGEOWL
Mon May 21, 2018 1:15 pm

Hey guys so I have this very large ant nest up my drive way with queens all over it ready for nuptial flight and I want to grab a few in your opinion how do you think I should do this? Right off the top and get bit a bunch. Put down a glass jar and hope one gets in there ( if I do that is it ok to have workers with her? )also these ants have ant highways through the forest which connects to more large colonies maybe just sit and watch the highways for a queen or would the queen even walk those paths? I really don't want to get bit I don't know how my body will react.
Any help is greatly appreciated :)
1 **** sapiens colony 1 queen 1 king 1 baby born 5/30/18
1 c. Modoc queen ( found 6/18/18)
1 c. Modoc queen ( found 6/19/18)
1 c. Noveboracensis queen ( found 6/19/18)
1 c. Noveboracensis queen (found 6/19/18) (eggs 6/23/18)

RAGEOWL
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Joined: Wed May 16, 2018 12:55 pm
Location: Oregon

Re: Your opinion needed

Post: # 36182Post RAGEOWL
Mon May 21, 2018 1:19 pm

http://s349.photobucket.com/user/RAGEOWL/library/?sort=3&page=1

Almost forgot to post the pics...hopes this helps :)
1 **** sapiens colony 1 queen 1 king 1 baby born 5/30/18
1 c. Modoc queen ( found 6/18/18)
1 c. Modoc queen ( found 6/19/18)
1 c. Noveboracensis queen ( found 6/19/18)
1 c. Noveboracensis queen (found 6/19/18) (eggs 6/23/18)

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idahoantgirl
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Location: Idaho, USA

Re: Your opinion needed

Post: # 36187Post idahoantgirl
Mon May 21, 2018 1:53 pm

The queens in your driveway's colony are not fertilized. Catching these queens would not accomplish anything. Mated queens never leave the nest unless it is destroyed and it is very necessary for them to move do a different nest. You need to wait for nuptial flights. If you see a queen with or without wings walking on the ground that is not obviously connected to a colony, catch it. she may be fertile. Most queens don't sting so don't worry about that.
Proverbs 6:6-8

Go to the ant, you sluggard;
consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
and gathers its food at harvest.

Keeping Tetramorium immigrans, Tapinoma Sessile

RAGEOWL
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Re: Your opinion needed

Post: # 36197Post RAGEOWL
Mon May 21, 2018 2:24 pm

idahoantgirl wrote:
Mon May 21, 2018 1:53 pm
The queens in your driveway's colony are not fertilized. Catching these queens would not accomplish anything. Mated queens never leave the nest unless it is destroyed and it is very necessary for them to move do a different nest. You need to wait for nuptial flights. If you see a queen with or without wings walking on the ground that is not obviously connected to a colony, catch it. she may be fertile. Most queens don't sting so don't worry about that.
Dang thought I hit the jackpot well thank you for your knowledge.
1 **** sapiens colony 1 queen 1 king 1 baby born 5/30/18
1 c. Modoc queen ( found 6/18/18)
1 c. Modoc queen ( found 6/19/18)
1 c. Noveboracensis queen ( found 6/19/18)
1 c. Noveboracensis queen (found 6/19/18) (eggs 6/23/18)

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