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Wamdar's Velvety Tree Ant / Liometopum occidentale journal


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#1 Offline Wamdar - Posted July 2 2015 - 8:48 PM

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Workers emerging from a brood pile. 


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#2 Offline dermy - Posted July 2 2015 - 9:17 PM

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Is that the first Batch of workers? They make quite a bit of workers :D



#3 Offline dspdrew - Posted July 2 2015 - 9:52 PM

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Nice. Yeah they usually have about 50 workers in their first bunch.


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#4 Offline Wamdar - Posted July 3 2015 - 1:26 PM

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#5 Offline spytim - Posted July 3 2015 - 3:26 PM

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Very nice!  (y)



#6 Offline Alza - Posted July 3 2015 - 3:30 PM

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I just cleaned out a Piece Of Heaven - from THA, and it was done with tap water. I plan to use it on this species, but I'm not sure how sensitive they are to that kind of stuff, think they will be good ? Also, how big is your queen ?



#7 Offline dspdrew - Posted July 3 2015 - 7:18 PM

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I would let it fully dry first.



#8 Offline Wamdar - Posted July 5 2015 - 12:59 PM

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first feeding of live insects


#9 Offline dspdrew - Posted July 5 2015 - 11:02 PM

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They are good at taking down prey.



#10 Offline Lamarr - Posted July 6 2015 - 1:14 AM

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What are they feeding on?



#11 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted July 6 2015 - 2:47 AM

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:thinking: Feeling alone out of all the SoCal anters to not have one of these... :lol:



#12 Offline Guest__006417_* - Posted August 9 2021 - 9:55 PM

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Any Update with that Colony? Been a month, curious to hear/see how they have progressed for you. 



#13 Offline Antkeeper01 - Posted August 9 2021 - 10:19 PM

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they havent been online since 2016 they are not going to update this journal and even if the7 did they would probably say this colony is dead because a like 6 year old colony of these would be HUUUUUUGE


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1X Pogonomyrmex occidentalis 40-50 Workers

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#14 Offline Guest__006417_* - Posted August 10 2021 - 6:23 PM

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I just realized the year. I just read the date and was like oh that was just the other week Lol, no.
oops! Haha, I am still getting the hang of this sites oldschool layout.
I read a lot about these just dying out. My queen has larve currently so will see what happens. Just limited information I can find on people having success with these. Which seems to be because of something with them dying out when keeping them I presume. But at same time I have heard others say it is great beginner species and is easy. I intend to feed a lot and have them in a formicarium immedeatly. So, time will tell. 


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