Comments on: Myths and Facts about the Guatemalan Sompopo Ant

By: Rudy

Rudy — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:13:00 +0000

Charles, never heard of mongache… so who knows. Maybe someone else will come forth with the answer.

By: Charles

Charles — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:53:00 +0000

I lived in in Philadelphia for a while and while I was there, there were some communities of Guatamalans that would offer us Sompopos, but they called them something else — They called them, from what I understand, “Montgache.” I don’t know how to spell it exactly, but I assume this is how it is spelled.

Does any one know if these “Montgache” (this is a rough spelling of how it sounds in Spanish) is the same as the Sompopos? They told us that the Montgache bite, so we bit back.

It was prepared with lime, butter, and salt.

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By: Rudy Girón

Rudy Girón — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:28:20 +0000

@Becky, storms are known to be able to carry frogs, nuts, fish and why not sompopos? I don’t think you should worry about, sompopos are tropical ants.

By: Becky

Becky — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:29:29 +0000

I live in Austin, Tx and after a pretty good thunderstorm Saturday morning, we had about 30 giant winged ants in our swimming pool skimmer and a few laying around the pool upside down, struggling to right themselves off the wet ground. We had never seen anything like them and at first thought them to be some sort of wasp. After collecting a few, we noticed how similar they were to ants (but about an inch long!). We took them to a local specialty nursery and googled them – in fact they appear to be Guatemalan Somposos. In a wooded area behind the pool, we have discovered colonies with the non-winged workers digging holes about 1/2 inch in diameter. Should we be concerned? Wonder how they got all the way up here to Austin, Tx?

By: miPeriódico publica entrada sobre sompopos de La Guatemala Daily Photo | Apuntes efímeros

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:16:00 +0000

[...] en La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo. La nota original la publique el 24 de mayo bajo el nombre de Myths and Facts About the Guatemalan Sompopo y en miPeriódico se publicó bajo el titular Mitos y realidades sobre el zompopo de mayo. La [...]

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Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:12:10 +0000

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By: ale

ale — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:39:42 +0000

haaa!! bueno saber, I think, and this the fatalistic side of me, that if the Sompopos disappear, as the same with the Honey Bees, there’s go human kind in the next 10 years. I Hope not.

By: MO

MO — Sun, 25 May 2008 16:55:22 +0000

Rudy, Don’t forget about the Ronrones (ron ron).

By: sompopo

sompopo — Sat, 24 May 2008 22:12:28 +0000

Well, that just answered all my questions. Well done Rudy.