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Hi! I’ve been trying to get back into ant keeping. I used to live in New York where it is pretty easy to understand when nuptial flights are. Queen hunting seems a little more complex here. I live in the Mesa area and have caught almost a dozen rover ant queens this year. Most were fertile. I’m look...

Hi fellow ant keepers! Sorry if this is in the wrong place but I would just like to make an announcement to anyone who lives in the Arizona area. I've lived here for a month now and have been studying the ants every night. Since the first rain should be coming up soon I'd like to let you know I've s...

Hi I was wondering if someone can help me identify this ant queen. I have two of them, they are very small compared to my camponotus queens, and I found both of them under rocks. If you need a better picture I can get one. Thank you! https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1_WI9DGbbsLHMWXuKfm2JhNULsY...

On February 15th I found a queen that I'm pretty sure is a cremogaster. There was still a thin layer of snow and I was searching for a winter ant colony so I could catch queens when their nuptial flight begins. When I turned over a rock I saw a queen mostly covered in dirt and seemed to have what ap...