Tetramorium in Northern states?
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Tetramorium in Northern states?
I've been going out after rainstorms but I haven't been able to find any queens other than Camponotus. Has anyone else been able to find any Tetramorium?
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Re: Tetramorium in Northern states?
Currently in Chicago Camponotus and a few of my friends caught Formica.
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What type of Formica? I thought Formica only flew in July.
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Some of the rufa group Formica fly in May and June (as well as Formica pacifica on the west coast). I have also seen the odd fusca-group queen running around in the spring. Sometimes it's a fluke, a queen who had to leave her original nest.
June and early July are the seasons for Tetramorium. If they aren't flying now, they will be soon. Their flights happen in the earliest hours of the morning and they are mostly underground by late afternoon.
June and early July are the seasons for Tetramorium. If they aren't flying now, they will be soon. Their flights happen in the earliest hours of the morning and they are mostly underground by late afternoon.
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Ok, I have been looking in the morning but not super early, so i'll try that. Do you know around what time?
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Usually about 4-8 o'clock, yet I'm just guessing.
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Thanks
I really want to be able to catch a lot of ants so I can be a GAN farmer
I really want to be able to catch a lot of ants so I can be a GAN farmer
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Be an ant-keeper before a GAN farmer. catching too many queens is a classic mistake.
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Re: Tetramorium in Northern states?
Formica around here fly in late June. (F. montana)
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25
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I found about 10 Tetramorium Male alates on one of the windows of my house. I was wondering if this means a nuptial flight is going to happen soon. There is a thunderstorm where I live right now.
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