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Well Im hear if that counts for any thing now!
Me as well.
Bob: Harvesters are quite easy to keep, at least in my experience. I am located in the West, Southern Idaho. Pogonomyrmex are very abundant and easily captured during the spring and in mid summer after it rains. I have personally experienced P. rugosus flights so thick after a Thunder storm in Nevada with queens so thick on the ground it was impossible to move without stepping on several of them at once.
I've been reading this forum for months, and finally signed up today. I'm in Northern California, which is suppose to have a ton of harvester ants. I can't find any either yet.... time to go hiking I guess.
Hi Arcais and welcome.
Is this the time of year the ants keep there swarm time there ? (here it is) so if you go out you probably will find some young queens looking for a new home. Try to look for them in the late afternoon, when it is going to rain soon. That is the time most species fly out to mate.
Hi Jimmy, thanks for the welcome.
I was going to say it hardly ever rains in the summer over here, but it rained tonight :-D
Around here, I've never seen a swarm, and I've live on the San Francisco peninsula for years. In Santa Cruz and up in the mountains (Mammoth Lakes) I've seen swarms.
Although I did fine a cool site that shows several species in the area: http://www.antweb.org/california.jsp
Any suggestions on what I should go look for? ;-)
ww. there are living some nice species in California. You should not be searching for ants from other states (ore countries). ;)
Maybe a Camponotus sp. if they live in your area they would not be to difficult to keep for you and they are very nice species (with majors).
South Western USA is the hot spot for anting. Seriously, theirs ant courses even that go on, but thats for like recomendation for entemology students usually and you have to pay for it like flights stay, food and all the equipment, which includes like Microscopes, and things like that. Your lucky to be in Cali! Look for some Myrmecotus (spelling? they are honey pot ants) and some Pheidole!Those would be the coolest to keep!
Myrmecotus sp. are in deed fine ants but it very hard to keep, you need to consider the experience you have with keeping ants. Try not to keep difficult species if you do not now enough about them, would be a waist of Ants and time.
Pheidole sp. are very nice to but masters in escaping. The are small ants and very strong. Make sure you make your farm escape proof. ;) Also they are very sensitive to a dry nest, if you are unlucky and the nest is to dry you could kill 1/2 a colony in 1 day.
Can they escape over fluon (I think thats how it is spelled)?
Yes ,Myrmecocystus sp. and other are really nice ants ,I dont know if hard to keep ,but in deed nice. I will have one fertile queen of Myrmecocystus mexicanus and I am very very happy!
Skippy