I caught one camponotus in the morning last week but she was by herself, no big flight or anything. Haven't seen anything since then. Just had a large rain and now its in the high 70's and all I could find were workers today and I think one male but it kept flying away so I wasn't certain. I was turning over logs, checking near and around LARGE colonies, under leaves, everywhere, and couldn't find any queen.
I'm in western Ky, so either they haven't flown yet or they all flew last week before the rain and now they're going to be near impossible to find.
OH-KY-IN-IL-MI Nuptial Flight Sightings
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warhawk373
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Re: OH-KY-IN-IL-MI Nuptial Flight Sightings
My girlfriend just caught a Camponotus digging a founding chamber in her cactus pot on our front steps this weekend. I had to teach her how to make a test tube setup and put it in my test tube rack in the basement because she's having better luck catching queens than I am. She's up to two this year and I'm at one that didn't make it. Here's the queen she caught. No ID needed she's definitely Camponotus.
Re: OH-KY-IN-IL-MI Nuptial Flight Sightings
I'm kind of ashamed right now that my girlfriend is having better luck than me at finding queens. She just found another Camponotus queen in her cactus pot this morning.
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ItShallBeJordan
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Re: OH-KY-IN-IL-MI Nuptial Flight Sightings
Time to get a cactus! I had a queen on my mirror of my car today and I grabbed it and as I was walking inside with it in my hand, it fell into the grass, never to be found again
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Re: OH-KY-IN-IL-MI Nuptial Flight Sightings
Caught a Camponotus pennsylvanicus queen today.
Keeper of
Tetramorium sp.
Crematogaster sp.
Tetramorium sp.
Crematogaster sp.
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xTNxANTMANx
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Re: OH-KY-IN-IL-MI Nuptial Flight Sightings
Y'all are lucky 
I found 2 Lasius interjectus queens last week which are parasite queens so I let them go. I want a Camponotus penn. and castenaus but no luck yet.
I found 2 Lasius interjectus queens last week which are parasite queens so I let them go. I want a Camponotus penn. and castenaus but no luck yet.Keeper of:
Aphaenogaster sp
Tapinoma sessile
Camponotus subbarbatus x3
Aphaenogaster sp
Tapinoma sessile
Camponotus subbarbatus x3
Re: OH-KY-IN-IL-MI Nuptial Flight Sightings
I can't make this up...she caught another Camponotus in that frigging cactus. 
That makes 3 Camponotus and 1 Formica.
The second one she caught laid two eggs already.
The first one hasn't yet but the Formica has a nice little clutch.
That makes 3 Camponotus and 1 Formica. The second one she caught laid two eggs already.
The first one hasn't yet but the Formica has a nice little clutch.
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