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#1 Offline Dnail - Posted April 14 2018 - 8:50 PM

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so this morning i feed my Polyrhachis bicolor queen, after i close the test tube with cotton she secrete some kind of brown fluid from her abdomen. is it dung?

 

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Colony:

2 Odontomachus aciculatus 

2 Polyrachis Dives

3 Camponotus sp


#2 Offline Scrixx - Posted April 14 2018 - 9:15 PM

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Quick google search told me that these are a formic acid spraying genus. She sprayed formic acid on the cotton when she was disturbed. It's self defense. 


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Keeping: Camponotus sansabeanus - C. vicinus - Formica francoeuri - Liometopum occidentale -  Pogonomyrmex californicus - P. rugosus - P. subnitidus - Solenopsis molesta - S. xyloni - Tapinoma sessile - Temnothorax sp.

Journals: Camponotus sansabeanus & C. vicinus | Pogonomyrmex californicus & P. rugosus | Solenopsis molesta & S. xyloni

Discontinued: Pogonomyrmex subnitidus


#3 Offline 123LordOfAnts123 - Posted April 14 2018 - 9:28 PM

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It’s poop. Formic acid is clear and produced in relatively small amounts.

All ants poop, and some species are much, much messier than others. Queens of most tend to produce larger amounts of excrement, often infrequently. White, black, yellow, and brown are common colors.
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#4 Offline Scrixx - Posted April 14 2018 - 9:41 PM

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It’s poop. Formic acid is clear and produced in relatively small amounts.

All ants poop, and some species are much, much messier than others. Queens of most tend to produce larger amounts of excrement, often infrequently. White, black, yellow, and brown are common colors.

I see thanks, my queens so far have only pooped in white smears/streaks so I have no experience with other colors. Plus I've never had a formic acid spraying species.


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ScrixxAnts Queen Adoption

YouTube: View my ants

Keeping: Camponotus sansabeanus - C. vicinus - Formica francoeuri - Liometopum occidentale -  Pogonomyrmex californicus - P. rugosus - P. subnitidus - Solenopsis molesta - S. xyloni - Tapinoma sessile - Temnothorax sp.

Journals: Camponotus sansabeanus & C. vicinus | Pogonomyrmex californicus & P. rugosus | Solenopsis molesta & S. xyloni

Discontinued: Pogonomyrmex subnitidus


#5 Offline Dnail - Posted April 15 2018 - 1:22 AM

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I'm sure its not formic acid because i already see it when i messed up feed my queen with half death mosquito.

 

so its really poop. the other have black tinny poop not liquid like this one

 

my dirties queen is Odontoponera queen

this is her test tube after a month

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water become yellowish 


Colony:

2 Odontomachus aciculatus 

2 Polyrachis Dives

3 Camponotus sp





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