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#1 Offline Hightlyze - Posted September 3 2019 - 3:00 AM

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Alright. How I find my queens is I usually find them inside the house with exception to my 2 odontoponera queens. For me, queens are mostly found in the most unexpected places. Like usually inside the house. I found an odontomachus queen in the living room once. I found them all from march-september here. I'm currently raising 2 odontoponera queens while the rest from the past died from starvation and molds from leaving bread without taking them out. I think one of them laid an egg.

I found the 2 odontoponera around the food bowl on the porch thing

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#2 Offline Leo - Posted September 3 2019 - 4:12 AM

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Alright. How I find my queens is I usually find them inside the house with exception to my 2 odontoponera queens. For me, queens are mostly found in the most unexpected places. Like usually inside the house. I found an odontomachus queen in the living room once. I found them all from march-september here. I'm currently raising 2 odontoponera queens while the rest from the past died from starvation and molds from leaving bread without taking them out. I think one of them laid an egg.

why bread



#3 Offline Hightlyze - Posted September 3 2019 - 4:37 AM

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Alright. How I find my queens is I usually find them inside the house with exception to my 2 odontoponera queens. For me, queens are mostly found in the most unexpected places. Like usually inside the house. I found an odontomachus queen in the living room once. I found them all from march-september here. I'm currently raising 2 odontoponera queens while the rest from the past died from starvation and molds from leaving bread without taking them out. I think one of them laid an egg.

why bread
Insects decided not to exist so I needed to feed them at least something

i eat cars for breakfast everynight


#4 Offline Leo - Posted September 3 2019 - 5:05 AM

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Alright. How I find my queens is I usually find them inside the house with exception to my 2 odontoponera queens. For me, queens are mostly found in the most unexpected places. Like usually inside the house. I found an odontomachus queen in the living room once. I found them all from march-september here. I'm currently raising 2 odontoponera queens while the rest from the past died from starvation and molds from leaving bread without taking them out. I think one of them laid an egg.

why bread
Insects decided not to exist so I needed to feed them at least something

 

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#5 Offline Hightlyze - Posted September 3 2019 - 5:23 AM

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Not my fault there ain't any insects

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#6 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted September 3 2019 - 10:52 AM

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Not my fault there ain't any insects

 

Dude, you found two queen in your house, I'm sure you can find insects in your area


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#7 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted September 3 2019 - 10:55 AM

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I found my Camponoutus queen flying in my house in around June, and it took her around a month to lay eggs, so don't worry if your queens don't lay right away.


He travels, he seeks the p a r m e s a n.


#8 Offline Hightlyze - Posted September 3 2019 - 10:14 PM

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I think I just found another odontoponera queen judging by it's appearance compared to other which it's back is bigger and also has a proportioned butt and head compared to workers which have small ones and large head

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#9 Offline jcisopodgang - Posted September 4 2019 - 1:30 PM

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First queen was a pogonomyrmex occidentalis i found after searching for 2 hours. Funny was the rest of that trip i caught 18 more.... thanks to Pogonomyrmex flights!


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