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Are you on Facebook? If so find the Colorado Ant Keepers page. We have a few members that have more Formica than they know what to do with.

Last night I caught 4 Solenopsis Molesta. The air was just thick with them. Was just before sunset. Also saw a Lasius Latipes colony preparing for Nuptial Flight.

I guess they weren't barbatus but actually Occidentalis. Looked at their teeth really up close and they have that hook/offset tooth on the mandible that occidentalis have. Queens were only 10-11mm too so I guess that is too small for Barbatus. On a different note, more Lasius Latipes today. They do ...

I live in the Denver Metro Area. Last night I saw tons of the following queens: Pogonomyrmex Barbatus (They have been flying for about 2 weeks now) A couple Lasius Species (unsure of exact species) A few Tetramorium Immigrans (do they ever stop flying?) and a really nice rarity, a social parasite th...