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Ender Ants' Pheidole sp. Journal

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#1 Offline Ender Ants - Posted July 30 2019 - 10:18 AM

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Capture Date: July 25, 2019

​Queen Specs:

Red-orange head, thorax, and abdomen 

Yellow lines on abdomen 

4-5 mm

 

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Deciding to make some more ant keeping journals this year to document almost everything about my newly caught queens. First and foremost, I caught this queen a night after a rainstorm, along with a number of other species I haven't seen in a while. I'm also 90% sure she is P. gilvesceens because there were at least 10 colonies of this species around the area I had caught her, but there is always a chance she could be a different species.

 

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Edited by Ender Ants, September 15 2019 - 1:08 PM.

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#2 Offline Ender Ants - Posted July 30 2019 - 10:31 AM

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Update July 28, 2019:

 

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Since this was the only Pheidole queen I had caught, I was hoping she will lay eggs. And to my luck she laid her first batch. 

 

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Edited by Ender Ants, July 30 2019 - 10:31 AM.

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#3 Offline ponerinecat - Posted July 30 2019 - 1:04 PM

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Gorgeous colors.


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#4 Offline Ender Ants - Posted August 1 2019 - 10:46 AM

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Caught 4 more Pheidole queens, with 2 being very similar to this one. Not sure what it could be, but my guesses would be P. hyatti, paiute, or creightoni. 

 

Length: 6-7mm

Coloration: Dark orange head, and thorax. Yellow abdomen, with brown lines on the top. 

Features: Dark mark on top of thorax, broader jaws compared to P. gilvescens

 

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#5 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted August 1 2019 - 11:49 AM

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Wow! Amazing pictures. Good luck with them!
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#6 Offline Derpy - Posted August 1 2019 - 6:53 PM

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Such a cute little pheidole species :)


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-1x Parasitic Formica Sp. Colony

-1x Pogonomymrex Californicus Colony

-1x Camponotus Hyatti Colony

 


#7 Offline ponerinecat - Posted August 2 2019 - 10:46 AM

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Such a cute little pheidole species :)

The ant on your profile is beautiful. Did you take the photo yourself?


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#8 Offline Ender Ants - Posted August 2 2019 - 7:28 PM

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Such a cute little pheidole species :)

The ant on your profile is beautiful. Did you take the photo yourself?

 

Thank you, and yes. That was one of the last photos I took before that colony had died out. 



#9 Offline Ender Ants - Posted August 17 2019 - 12:08 PM

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Update August 17, 2019:

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Pheidole gilvescens queen died due to somehow drowning in the water. :( One of the Pheidole dealates had died too for some reason, and an alate.

 

I have two more queens both with a small clutch of about 10 eggs. This is one of the dealates. Not even sure if I have caught 2, or 3 different Pheidole species the past 2 months. 

 

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Edited by Ender Ants, August 17 2019 - 2:43 PM.


#10 Offline ponerinecat - Posted August 17 2019 - 2:25 PM

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Double post on the last picture.


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#11 Offline Ender Ants - Posted August 17 2019 - 2:43 PM

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Double post on the last picture.

Fixed it, thanks :D







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