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- Tue Sep 03, 2019 10:55 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Small species, any ideas?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1326
Re: Small species, any ideas?
Thank you!!! Boy you are right about growing fast!!! Checked on her after a couple weeks and she had a huge brood going..couple more weeks and 5 or 5 nanatics(?).. now theres like 10-15.. they are very active and curious.. plugged them into a little micro and they have already explored the whole thi...
- Tue Sep 03, 2019 2:32 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Small species, any ideas?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1326
Small species, any ideas?
My phone doesn't take good close ups, so here is a little video clip.. the lighting gets a bit better at the end. Found queen about 2 months ago, Westchester, NY area. Was going to work early in the morning and she was stuck to the dew on my car..so rescued and set up in the tube. Small queen, that ...
- Fri Oct 05, 2018 10:14 am
- Forum: Nuptial Flight Schedules and Sightings
- Topic: Nuptial Flight Sightings: New York
- Replies: 36
- Views: 26644
Re: Nuptial Flight Sightings: New York
I managed to find 3, one had already dropped her wings, one I watched pull them off immediately (which was really cool), the 3rd has yet to pull them off so I question if she had mated. https://i.postimg.cc/J4002tmH/20181004_154111.jpg They are still alive, which is good as I understand they will di...
- Tue Oct 02, 2018 1:17 pm
- Forum: Nuptial Flight Schedules and Sightings
- Topic: Nuptial Flight Sightings: New York
- Replies: 36
- Views: 26644
Re: Nuptial Flight Sightings: New York
not sure, posted the pics in the ID forum and someone said they looked like claviger? or one of the parasitic species, not sure how to tell the difference.
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 6:22 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: IDing Camponotus from Formica
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2087
Re: IDing Camponotus from Formica
thanks!! love posts like this!!
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 6:12 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: from nuptial flight today...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1958
Re: from nuptial flight today...
So ended up with three from todays flight, the one that took her wings off before I found her, one that landed on my car and hasn't removed her wings but is very chill in her new home (will check on her in a few hours), and another that landed on my car; she had wings but promptly removed them after...
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 5:21 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: from nuptial flight today...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1958
from nuptial flight today...
Westchester NY, hundreds of queens with drones they were all flying off. Later (a little while ago now) finally found a queen scurrying away on the pavement nearby. She had already dropped her wings..yay lol. Really like the gold colored workers.. Sorry for not the best picture quality but are these...
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 2:32 pm
- Forum: Nuptial Flight Schedules and Sightings
- Topic: Nuptial Flight Sightings: New York
- Replies: 36
- Views: 26644
Re: Nuptial Flight Sightings: New York
Some nuptial flights happening around the Westchester area..some pictures I took:
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 5:22 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Any ideas?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1602
Re: Any ideas?
ahhh thanks!! was looking through different beetles and couldn't find it lol
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 2:10 pm
- Forum: Ant Species Identification Center
- Topic: Any ideas?
- Replies: 2
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Any ideas?
Have not seen anything that looks like this.. not sure if a queen either, quite small, maybe 1 or 2 mm length?
NY area
NY area