#wild ant

[adragonsoulants]

New ant video, this time on the Prenolepis imparis nuptial flight from earlier this year!

I am so much more fond of this video than the teramorium one.

This species is a huge favorite of mine and I've been wanting to put together a flight video since I started recording their nuptial flights!

[adragonsoulants]

Saw an ant queen today, she was very small.

No clue who she is but I hope her day is well :)

[adragonsoulants]

New pfp from the photos i took today :)

P. imparis queen on a tulip leaf

[adragonsoulants]

Just had a fucking heart attack

Went to feed the ants and there was an ant running about on the shelf :')

It's a wild Tetramorium, thought it was one of my C. Subbarbatus 💀

Took this as an important reminder to clean some spilled honey off the ant shelf so this lady doesn't have anything to write home about.

[adragonsoulants]

I was in Ohio the other day. Got some pictures of some bugs!

Unknown ant, found her flailing in the sand at lake Erie. Collected some nice drift wood sticks too.

Found some isopods too! Came across these bunch that look like a wider P. Spinicornis without the consistent spots down their backs. Did some looking and they're Oniscus asellus!

[adragonsoulants]

Anybody recognize this species of ant?

Just saw her wandering the sidewalk while I was hanging out outside with my cat. I'm about to go weed the garden so I'll try to ID her when I get back in. Given the smallness of her gaster I'm assuming she parasitic. Albeit a key detail is that her gaster is totally smooth with no segments.

[adragonsoulants]

So I was hanging out at the park today with the friend and got to see a nuptial flight!!! I have been wanting to see one all summer! It was so cool seeing all the ants flying in the sunlight and just seeing the swarm slowly move about.

I think I saw atleast 2 species having a flight together? I think both may be a Lasius, for sure the larger darker ones.

I did catch some but if they wanted to fly I'd let them go. Such as the last one who was posing so nice on my hand only to fly away soon as I took the picture.

I only ended up with 1 of the larger queens but we're going back the next day to see if we can find more.

Alas catching queens during a nuptial flight can yield slim results with the queen actually having mated. But we'll see. The one I caught wasn't flying and was a little ways away from her presumed colony.

However!

It can making IDing easier as I could see what the workers looked like!

I believe the larger queens (and the one I cought) is Lasius brevicornis!

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