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#1 Offline Matt - Posted March 22 2014 - 11:15 AM

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May 16th, 2013

 

I've got the colony with about 50 workers. It's the first colony I had. I was really happy getting into myrmecology!

 

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June 26th, 2013

 

I was not the only one to be curious about ants, my cat was interested too. The nest was placed on the radiator. One day my cat, stretching on the radiator, brought down the nest on the ground. Fortunately I was able to act quickly to prevent ants from escaping. But the plexiglass was completely cracked. So I had to move my ants to a new nest.

 

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July 3rd, 2013

 

We can see that the first major larvae is now a nymph.

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August 12th, 2013

The colony had about 110 workers.

 

August 25th, 2013

 

The colony grew fast!

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And the first major, who was born on July 07th.

 

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October 10th, 2013

 

The colony had about 200 workers.

 

February 22nd, 2014

 

The colony grows faster, there were about 400 workers.

 

March 10th, 2014

The nest has become too small for her, so I've connected another nest.

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#2 Offline dspdrew - Posted March 22 2014 - 12:39 PM

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What kind of seeds are those?



#3 Offline Matt - Posted March 22 2014 - 12:51 PM

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I've bought a bag of birdseeds which contains:

  • white millet
  • yellow millet
  • oatmeal
  • red millet
  • "Millade" and "Niger" (don't even know what is, and I didn't find any english translations)

And I've harvested dandelion seeds, because they really like those seeds.



#4 Offline Matt - Posted March 23 2014 - 11:02 AM

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I've just done a graph to see how fast a colony evolves. It might be interesting to have the graphics from other members! I take notes on the population of my colonies regularly to make more graph. 

 

 

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#5 Offline dspdrew - Posted March 23 2014 - 3:34 PM

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That's a cool idea, I might have to do that myself.



#6 Offline Trailandstreet - Posted March 30 2014 - 2:59 AM

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A nice colony. I have only a Queen and a few eggs or larvae at the moment.
I like your cylindric nests. I Hope my colony evolves as well.



:hi: Franz

if you find any mistakes, it's my autocorrection. it doesn't speak english.


#7 Offline Matt - Posted March 30 2014 - 3:06 AM

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Thanks!

I hope so for you. The beginning is a bit slow, but then it goes faster and faster. I have about 150-200 eggs now in the brood.



#8 Offline Matt - Posted April 7 2014 - 6:02 AM

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Few news about this colony:

They now have two nests connected, the new one is now full of ants and they transported only larvea in this one.

The brood is always bigger.



#9 Offline LAnt - Posted April 7 2014 - 7:55 PM

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What are your nests made out of?



#10 Offline Matt - Posted April 8 2014 - 2:40 AM

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The nests are made out ​​of "reconstituted stone". Don't know more, I bought them.






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