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Dspdrew's Veromessor pergandei Journal [138] (Discontinued 12-14-2021)

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#21 Offline dspdrew - Posted August 31 2014 - 4:45 PM

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Update 8-31-2014
 
The colony is still growing like crazy. It is now up to around 200 workers. There is easily a pile of at least 50 new eggs in there at all times.

 

 

 









#22 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted August 31 2014 - 5:27 PM

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What do you feed them?



#23 Offline dspdrew - Posted August 31 2014 - 5:34 PM

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Lots of different types of seeds, insects, chicken, hummingbird nectar, and ByFormica's blue food.



#24 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted August 31 2014 - 6:18 PM

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Also, why did it change from Messor to Veromessor?



#25 Offline dspdrew - Posted August 31 2014 - 7:30 PM

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New DNA testing confirmed that the "Messor" here in North America, even though very similar, is not the same genus as the Messor overseas. Therefor, it's now a genus of its own called Veromessor.



#26 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted August 31 2014 - 7:33 PM

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So Veromessor pergandei, and Veromessor andrei ect. are the new terms?



#27 Offline DesertAntz - Posted August 31 2014 - 8:50 PM

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New DNA testing confirmed that the "Messor" here in North America, even though very similar, is not the same genus as the Messor overseas. Therefor, it's now a genus of its own called Veromessor.

Interesting 


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#28 Offline Alza - Posted August 31 2014 - 9:08 PM

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good info



#29 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 1 2014 - 8:05 PM

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Fully Clausteral or no?



#30 Offline dspdrew - Posted September 2 2014 - 6:33 AM

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As far as I know, they are.



#31 Offline dspdrew - Posted September 25 2014 - 9:32 PM

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Update 9-25-2014
 
This colony is producing extremely fast. The colony is now up to about 600 workers. That means it tripled in one month!
 
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#32 Offline DesertAntz - Posted September 26 2014 - 6:49 AM

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600 ants in that little box? 

 

I'm aware you're pressed for space in your apartment but when, if ever, do you move them into a bigger set up? Especially if they keep growing so fast! 


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#33 Offline dspdrew - Posted September 26 2014 - 9:38 AM

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As soon as I get some of my formicariums built. I'm actually drawing them up on the computer right now.



#34 Offline dspdrew - Posted October 12 2014 - 2:22 PM

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Update 10-12-2014
 
The colony is still exploding in size. Now they have over 700 workers.
 
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They have moved into their new test tube, but are still occupying the old one. The old one went dry, and they have actually pulled the entire cotton ball out piece by piece through the small hole in the cork stopper.
 
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They piled all the cotton shreds in the corner along with all their other trash.
 
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They still have giant piles of freshly laid eggs every time I look in there. Right now there are two piles just like this one.
 
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Even though the colony has tons of larger sized workers, they've now gotten their first much larger major. You can see how much larger it is than the rest of the workers here.
 
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#35 Offline Myrmicinae - Posted October 12 2014 - 3:23 PM

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Nice!  Are you thinking about transferring them into a more permanent formicarium?


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#36 Offline DesertAntz - Posted October 12 2014 - 3:47 PM

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This colony looks like it's doing amazing. That's a lot of mouths to feed. 


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#37 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 12 2014 - 4:55 PM

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Do you see the queen? I think this species is going to go into my big panel formicarium.



#38 Offline Alza - Posted October 12 2014 - 5:03 PM

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you have them ?



#39 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted October 12 2014 - 5:08 PM

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No, but soon. :)



#40 Offline Alza - Posted October 12 2014 - 5:36 PM

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as in next year 







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