Lasius flights Alberta , Canada

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NKantsalberta
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Lasius flights Alberta , Canada

Post: # 45641Post NKantsalberta
Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:36 pm

Anyone in Alberta see or find any lasius alates? Ive found the odd dead winged queen around the last few days but no live ones or males or serious nest activity
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Re: Lasius flights Alberta , Canada

Post: # 46842Post AntsDakota
Tue Aug 07, 2018 1:39 pm

NKantsalberta wrote:
Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:36 pm
Anyone in Alberta see or find any lasius alates? Ive found the odd dead winged queen around the last few days but no live ones or males or serious nest activity
They usually fly on mass in late August, so hardly anyone finds them in July.
"God made every kind of wild beasts and every kind of livestock and every kind of creeping things;" (including ants) "and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:25

NKantsalberta
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Re: Lasius flights Alberta , Canada

Post: # 46943Post NKantsalberta
Wed Aug 08, 2018 12:41 pm

AntsDakota wrote:
Tue Aug 07, 2018 1:39 pm
NKantsalberta wrote:
Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:36 pm
Anyone in Alberta see or find any lasius alates? Ive found the odd dead winged queen around the last few days but no live ones or males or serious nest activity
They usually fly on mass in late August, so hardly anyone finds them in July.
Oh I know, ive just never seen so many random and dead alates so early.
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