Nuptial Flight: West TN & surrounding areas

Where and when are you finding queen ants? A section to share nuptial flight schedules by ant species and locality

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warhawk373
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Re: Nuptial Flight: West TN & surrounding areas

Post: # 20025Post warhawk373
Mon Apr 24, 2017 4:51 pm

xTNxANTMANx wrote:
Mon Apr 24, 2017 2:31 pm
This is preferably for Batspiderfish or Martialis.... or anyone else that would know :-)
The last 2 days here in West Tennessee we had a strong cold front. Highs were only in the low 60s high 50s with some rain and lows at night dipping down into the low 40s. Now that its warming back up how long do you think it would take for nuptial flights to start again? Today is supposed to get around 70 so could they start again as early as today? Or do they need to "warm up" a couple more days?
Me again, in western Ky, had the exact same weather as you and I couldn't find anything except workers today. I was turning over logs, scanning everywhere, under leaves, near large colonies and didn't see any queens. I did find one last week though but she was by herself in the morning which makes me think she was an early bloomer.

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