Yesterday evening, around 6:30 PM, I was out in the yard and found three Myrmica sp. queens under a single rock. I hadn’t actually planned on searching for any more queens that day, I’d been studying and just had a weird feeling that there might be a queen somewhere in the yard. It wasn’t something … read more

On August 30, 2024, at around 10:00 AM, I finally found my first queen ant, a Formica subsericea. She was tucked away in her founding chamber beneath a sedimentary rock in my backyard - an area I’ve admittedly let run a little wild, which turns out to be ideal for all sorts of critters. The weather … read more