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[Leo]

7/3/18

 

1 odontoponera queen, found under a rock and is in a small formicarium.

the pristomyrmex have laid 1 egg, I believe.

[Leo]

18/3/18

 

A few harpegnathos workers actually survived the die-out and were stumbling around the trash can, so I stuffed them in a little box, then around 3 weeks go, I caught a lone harpegnathos queen and so I put them together, BOOM instant colony, the queen has since laid 12 eggs, and they have one larvae  , they eat an entire cricket every other day. 

worker with new egg.

The queen just laid an egg, the worker is now holding the egg. you can see the queen in a bend-over position.

brooooooood

[KBant]

Nice species! I wish I had something similar here in California.

Edited by KBant, March 18 2018 - 10:08 AM.

[YsTheAnt]

We have pseudomyrmex, it's a really cool looking ant

[Leo]

Yeah, pseudomyrmex looks really cool. We have tetraponera here instead!

[Dnail]

wow, so that's how to catch diacama colony, get some worker n by luck u get gamergate!

is there any trick? i want them

[Leo]

Nah, I just randomly collected workers and fed them until eggs started appearing. 

[Leo]

26/3/18

 

I noticed some interesting behaviour from the harpegnathos today, a few days back, their only larvae died but they still have 15 eggs. Today, when I was watching them I noticed a worker laying an egg. but instead of feeding/giving it to the queen, the worker just looked around then placed the egg in the pile... since she is a worker, it will probably hatch into a male  .

 

They now eat one cricket every other day which is weird considering they have no larvae, yet not a trace of the cricket is left when they are done. The diacamma have 18+ eggs now and it is hilarious watching workers attempting to pick them up all at once!

some of the ectomomyrmex died, while others laid eggs, no larvae yet...

 

The odontoponera also died a couple day ago and it's corpse grew some nasty white mould 

[Dnail]

 

The odontoponera also died a couple day ago and it's corpse grew some nasty white mould 

this is happened to my odontoponera winged queen too, the mold is white around her neck 

[Leo]

 

 

The odontoponera also died a couple day ago and it's corpse grew some nasty white mould 

this is happened to my odontoponera winged queen too, the mold is white around her neck 

 

mine looked like a ball of nasty fluff

[Leo]

13/04/18

 

GUESS WHO CAUGHT AN ANOCHETUS QUEEN!!!!!

 

Diacamma have large larvae

hapegnathos have 30+ eggs but no larvae...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pics later

Edited by Leo, April 12 2018 - 4:47 PM.

[Leo]

Quick question:

should I make a seperate journal for my trap-jaws? I have anochetus risii and strumigenys.

[Dnail]

Quick question:

should I make a seperate journal for my trap-jaws? I have anochetus risii and strumigenys.

separate it pls. i have trap jaw too but different genus, Odontomachus sp. i want to know how u keep your

[Connectimyrmex]

HOLY MACARONI YOU CAUGHT ANOCHETUS?!
 

That's my dream genus, along with like five others.

 

How's your strumigenys doing?

[Leo]

HOLY MACARONI YOU CAUGHT ANOCHETUS?!
 

That's my dream genus, along with like five others.

 

How's your strumigenys doing?

lol, anochetus is ok no eggs.

 

caught more strumigenys today. When I first found them, I was so excited I yelled "STRMGHMGNGNUMANUM"

[Leo]

18/4/18

 

here ya go! connectimyrmex!

 

(old setup)

anochetus!

Edited by Leo, April 18 2018 - 4:27 AM.

[CoolColJ]

18/4/18

 

here ya go! connectimyrmex!

 

(old setup)

 

anochetus!

 

Put your pics on Imgur, google drive is not working

[Leo]

Should be ok now.

[Leo]

26/4/18

 

Today I had a look into the H. venator formicarium and noticed some small small larvae! Finally!

 

The anochetus laid 3 eggs in a small chamber of soil.

[Leo]

30/04/18

 

Brachyponera obscurans.

I have had these for awhile but wasn't sure they had a queen, say her yesterday so yeah. The live in a small litmus paper box from my chem teacher's room filled with soil.