u/Historical_Sea_1837

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Hey everyone!

I know how frustrating it can be to wander around looking at the pavement for hours, only to come back empty-handed. Knowing when to look is half the battle.

To help out, especially for those new to the hobby, I’ve put together a cheat sheet of when the most common species typically have their nuptial flights.

https://antscout.com/tools/flight-dates

Obviously, exact dates depend heavily on your local weather (humidity, temperature, recent rain), but this should give you a solid baseline of which months to keep your catch tubes ready.

Let me know if I missed any major species or if your regional flights differ. Happy anting! 🐜

Been building these petri dish plaster nests with a mesh water tower for my Lasius, Myrmecia and Harpegnathos. Way less mold than direct watering and you can see the water level through the silicone window.

Happy to answer questions! My ants have been thriving in it for a couple months. Really recommend it.

Been building these petri dish plaster nests with a mesh water tower for my Lasius, Myrmecia and Harpegnathos. Way less mold than direct watering and you can see the water level through the silicone window.

Wrote up the process here if anyone wants it: https://antscout.com/blogs/ant-nest-tutorial-v1

Happy to answer questions! My ants have been thriving in it for a couple months. Really recommend it.

I know, another Ant ID app. I was skeptical too.

I got frustrated with field keys and apps that have no idea what easily identifiable species looks like, so I trained a model only on ants. Its available on the AntScout site.

Upload a clear photo and it gives you the top few species of guesses with photos. It is free, no login, no data selling. It definitely messes up on bad photos and some tricky genera, which is why am posting here. If you have a minute, throw your worst ant pics at it and tell me where it fails. I am actively retraining it.

I know, AI cant id ants. Please just give it a shot with a realistic picture before saying what you think! Put a lot of effort into it for the community. :) Its not bad for the environment, uses no water, and is not generative AI.

When its not visible enough, it gives the species group/complex, genus, or subgenus only. Look in the explanation box to see how confident it is. It can id over 11k species, is great with specimen images too. Be realistic with images you give it.

Link:

https://antscout.com/tools/ant-identification

I know, another Ant ID app. I was skeptical too.

I got frustrated with field keys and apps that have no idea what easily identifiable species looks like, so I trained a model only on ants. Its available on the AntScout site.

Upload a clear photo and it gives you the top few species of guesses with photos. It is free, no login, no data selling. It definitely messes up on bad photos and some tricky genera, which is why am posting here. If you have a minute, throw your worst ant pics at it and tell me where it fails. I am actively retraining it.

I know, AI cant id ants. Please just give it a shot with a realistic picture before saying what you think! Put a lot of effort into it for the community. :) Its not bad for the environment, uses no water, and is not generative AI.

When its not visible enough, it gives the species group/complex, genus, or subgenus only. Look in the explanation box to see how confident it is. It can id over 11k species, is great with specimen images too. Be realistic with images you give it.

Link:

https://antscout.com/tools/ant-identification

I've recently released my site AntScout, in which you can create blogs, look at thousands of caresheets made from literature, distribution map, flight months, compare ant sizes, report nuptial flights, and much more.

There's also an app, which you can do the same things, and also get notifications when flights have been reported near you!

You can identify over 10k species, from a single image and optional location via the new ant identification tool. Works almost instantly, and 100% for free!

I definitely recommend taking a look around, you might find something useful :)

Direct link: https://antscout.com/

Identification: https://antscout.com/tools/ant-identification

I found this really cool site, that uses a custom trained model thats trained on more than 11M images. It automatically sees the ants and individually identifies them! 100% free.

Seems pretty reliable so far, definitely not perfect. The site also has a lot of cool features like ant size comparing, flight months, species caresheets, species maps, custom ant blogs.

Link here:

https://antscout.com/tools/ant-identification

What do guys think?