Finding Leafcutter Ants in Unexpected Places
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- čas přidán 21. 06. 2024
- I travelled to Central Illinois to find Trachymyrmex septentrionalis, the northern fungus-farming ant. This population is one of the northernmost ranges of fungus growing ants on the planet, only being contested by another population of this same species on Long Island, New York.
On top of searching for Trachymyrmex, it's also looking like a really good time to find some Camponotus queens, and plenty of other amazing ant species. Will I be successful?
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These videos are getting more unfair. ❤😂
Very cool! I didn’t realize there are such cool ants in Illinois!
Bird is very young blue jay.
Wow. Im surprised i didnt see your chanel sooner because i love ants and their logic also wanted to say you are very underrated for your effort
Doooooooodddddd these are my trachys in ny. Thanks for showcasing northern ants. Btw another big invasive in nylanderia flavipes at least in ny.
Thankfully Illinois doesn't really have N. flavipes outside of some small populations in Chicago, I think. But yeah, I'm always happy to show off more species from more places here, especially when they're cool fungus growers 😎
I think my favorite genera of northern ants has to be a tie between temnothorax and Strumigenys
Such a good video keep posting more and more in need more actually good quality and entertaining ant hunting vlogs! Make more pls❤
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Please do some anting in Maryland………!?
Whenever I travel to a new place I try to get out into habitat, even if I'm not expecting to find anything special. That said, I don't have any connections in Maryland, so I don't see myself ending up there anytime soon.
@@ArthropodAntics why not go to VA with Oiler?
Hello, would you like to do a collab sometime?
I'm in Cali and I absolutely love ants. I mostly keep camponotus and other kinds but I wanna go down to Arizona with you and find some ants and go black lighting for honeypots. If you are interested let me know! Thanks.
its a velvet ant (wasp)
You were with mett here right?
I lived in about the latitude in Central Indiana never seen any leaf cutters .I did want to ask you about the little yellow to orange Big Heads that live in this area the name of them ? colonies are not big .. Good video as always give the Tetramorium some love bro thats my favorite ant.
I believe you are talking about Pheidole tysoni, maybe Pheidole hyatti, but I do not know hyatti’s range.