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I'm outside of the GTA near Oshawa and Durham. I have found four parasitic lasius Queens and two days before that I found Four camponotus novaeboracensis Queens. Still haven't seen hide nor hair of P. imparis in my area. The weather in March was nowhere near warm enough for them to fly, and only one...

Yesterday caught 4 Camponotus pennsylvanicus queens. I've been DYING to find Camponotus queens. What kind of area did you find them in? I have tons of Camponotus ants in my back garden, but haven't seen any queens about yet. Campos fly at dusk and dawn mainly. I find them by flipping rocks, peeling...

I've been looking for P. imparis with no luck as there was snow on the ground until about a week ago where I am outside of Toronto, but while I was out looking today I found 5 C. novaborecensus queens and one small queen I believe may be Themnothorax longispinosis. I've also finally seen p. imparis ...

Hey there, sorry it's taken me so long to sign back in! Life's been busy and I had a lot of ants to see to. On further inspection the species flying were L. flavus and L. lapites that night, not niger or neoniger. I just didn't get a good look at them until today as I didn't want to stress them. I'm...

They are out in numbers right now. It looks like niger and/or neoniger and some social parasite which I believe may be lapites. If anyone's been looking now's a good time!