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Started By Billy , Sep 9 2015 7:47 AM

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#121 Offline Barristan - Posted April 26 2018 - 9:39 PM

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Great pictures as always (y)


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#122 Offline CoolColJ - Posted April 26 2018 - 11:23 PM

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Great pictures as always (y)

 

 

Thanks, here is a video of the major on the rampage :)

 

http://www.formicult...on-the-rampage/


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#123 Offline Barristan - Posted May 1 2018 - 6:24 AM

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The Ant: "Bring me one of those chickens!"

 

Camponotus nicobarensis:

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Polyrhachis dives:
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Manica rubida:
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#124 Offline CoolColJ - Posted May 1 2018 - 2:28 PM

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I didn't know Camponotus like meat? :)


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#125 Offline AntsAreUs - Posted May 1 2018 - 3:13 PM

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Temnothorax schaumii

 

 

Stigmatomma pallipes

 

 

Myrmecina americana

 


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#126 Offline Barristan - Posted May 1 2018 - 11:14 PM

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I didn't know Camponotus like meat? :)

 

Most ants eat meat but smaller colonies have often a hard time eating it. I gave my small Lasius niger colony a tiny piece too but the small workers could not dismantle it so they only sucked up the fluid.


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#127 Offline CoolColJ - Posted May 2 2018 - 2:52 AM

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I didn't know Camponotus like meat? :)

 

Most ants eat meat but smaller colonies have often a hard time eating it. I gave my small Lasius niger colony a tiny piece too but the small workers could not dismantle it so they only sucked up the fluid.

 

Was that raw chicken?


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#128 Offline Barristan - Posted May 2 2018 - 3:28 AM

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Was that raw chicken?


Yep, it was.

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#129 Offline Barristan - Posted May 3 2018 - 4:29 PM

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This time some pork:

 

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#130 Offline CoolColJ - Posted May 5 2018 - 11:01 PM

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My smaller Melophorus family sampling a piece of mini mealworm for the first time

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Iridomyrmex queen cleaning her second gen worker pupa




bicknelli



Camponotus humilior


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#131 Offline CoolColJ - Posted May 5 2018 - 11:17 PM

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My strobe ant queen - Opisthopsis Rufithorax

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#132 Offline Shifty189 - Posted May 6 2018 - 11:00 AM

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If anyone is looking for an inexpensive option I have this macro lense that clips into my smartphone. It cost about $8

https://www.walmart....2&wl13=&veh=sem

One of my queens that I used my iPhone 6 using this lense


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#133 Offline Bracchymyrmex - Posted May 6 2018 - 12:54 PM

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Couple Camponotus subbarbatus queens (same pictures from the journal).
 
Camponotus subbarbatus 2
Camponotus subbarbatus 1

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#134 Offline CoolColJ - Posted May 7 2018 - 1:10 AM

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Strobe ant family pic. Two of the four nanitics and a bunch of pupae and larvae

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Red headed Iridomyrmex, smaller meat ant species.
brood with one pupa about to eclose


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#135 Offline T.C. - Posted May 8 2018 - 1:23 PM

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A Camponotus pennsylvanicus queen

 


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#136 Offline T.C. - Posted May 9 2018 - 9:04 AM

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#137 Offline CoolColJ - Posted May 9 2018 - 7:49 PM

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I gave my bicknelli a small piece of almond yesterday, and usually I remove the foil of raw honey after they have had their fill, but I decided to leave it overnight.
Well I think some of the honey leaked down to the almond, and the ants decided to move all the rubbish and dead nanitic bodyparts from the left cotton side of the test tube onto the almond and honey foil... :rolleyes:

I have noticed some of my ants like to dump rubbish on something sticky.

Well it does give me a chance to remove it.

 

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#138 Offline Mortamir - Posted May 10 2018 - 5:04 PM

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https://imgur.com/gallery/zHfDMAh

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#139 Offline Mortamir - Posted May 10 2018 - 5:05 PM

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Someone link to put pics on forum please

#140 Offline CoolColJ - Posted May 10 2018 - 5:57 PM

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Someone link to put pics on forum please

 

You need to go to each pic in your Imgur page and paste the direct links to each here


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