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Dspdrew's Temnothorax sp.2 Journal [181] (Updated 11-9-2019)

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#21 Offline dspdrew - Posted January 30 2016 - 10:38 AM

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Update 1-30-2016
 
Another one of these colonies was found dead today, leaving only one remaining colony.



#22 Offline dspdrew - Posted March 31 2016 - 6:48 AM

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Update 3-31-2016

The last colony died. :( Hopefully I'll get a much better queen this season.



#23 Offline dspdrew - Posted June 6 2016 - 9:17 PM

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Update 6-6-2016

I found a bunch more of these on 6-2-2016 in Trabuco Canyon, CA. When I first pulled up around 8:00 pm, they started swarming in the thousands, coating my whole windshield. Thirty minutes later, the flight was over and they were nowhere to be seen, other than a few randoms that showed up on the black light after it got dark.

 

I set up four test tubes, and put different numbers of them in each one.



#24 Offline Vendayn - Posted June 6 2016 - 9:24 PM

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Temnothorax. :D

Hope they are successful. They are a cool little ant species.


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#25 Offline Goldsystem - Posted June 7 2016 - 6:34 AM

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Good luck

#26 Offline dspdrew - Posted June 28 2016 - 10:13 PM

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Update 6-28-2016

All but one of these new queens have died already. The one I have left has a few eggs.
 
While up near Crystal Lake in Azusa, California about a week ago, I came across a whole colony of these under a rock. They had tons of alate brood, but no alates yet. I sucked up as much of the colony as I could, and then removed all of the alate brood when I got home. I put them into one of my new founding formicariums.
 
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#27 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted July 3 2016 - 10:47 PM

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Update 6-28-2016

All but one of these new queens have died already. The one I have left has a few eggs.
 
While up near Crystal Lake in Azusa, California about a week ago, I came across a whole colony of these under a rock. They had tons of alate brood, but no alates yet. I sucked up as much of the colony as I could, and then removed all of the alate brood when I got home. I put them into one of my new founding formicariums.
 
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Looks awesome.

#28 Offline dspdrew - Posted July 28 2016 - 12:49 AM

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Update 7-28-2016

Most of this mature colony died off, but now seems to be stable. There are only a few workers, but the queen has started to lay some eggs again, so hopefully the colony will start growing back.



#29 Offline dspdrew - Posted August 22 2016 - 8:32 PM

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Update 8-22-2016

This colony just got smaller and smaller, and now the few that were left are dead.



#30 Offline Vendayn - Posted August 22 2016 - 8:38 PM

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Well I know I said it before. But, I read up that Temnothorax prefer colder temperatures, and die off when its too hot. It could be that your place gets too warm for them.



#31 Offline dspdrew - Posted August 22 2016 - 8:43 PM

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Well this last colony came from way up in the mountains, so they were definitely used to cooler temps.



#32 Offline dspdrew - Posted June 4 2018 - 7:20 PM

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Update 6-4-2018

I found four more of these queens this year in Trabuco Canyon 6-3-2018.


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#33 Offline dspdrew - Posted July 29 2018 - 3:13 AM

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Update 7-28-2018

I actually found a bunch more of these queens, and now have about 13 colonies, some with more than one queen.
 
One of them got their first worker the other day.
 
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#34 Offline dspdrew - Posted December 7 2018 - 1:06 AM

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Update 12-7-2018

I now have seven of these colonies left. They all have workers and are producing brood. I just moved the remaining four that were in test tubes into formicariums. Right now the largest colony has six workers and plenty of brood.



#35 Offline FSTP - Posted December 7 2018 - 1:11 AM

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What are you feeding these guys? Just your standard crickets and sugars?



#36 Offline dspdrew - Posted December 7 2018 - 2:26 AM

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What are you feeding these guys? Just your standard crickets and sugars?

 

Yes.



#37 Offline dspdrew - Posted June 14 2019 - 1:32 AM

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Update 6-14-2019

I now have three of these colonies left from last year, and just found a bunch more queens in Trabuco Canyon on 6-9-2019.



#38 Offline dspdrew - Posted November 9 2019 - 3:47 AM

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Update 11-9-2019

I have one colony left from last year, and it's doing really well. As you can see from the picture below, it has even started producing a bunch of male alates. I counted about 200 workers.

 

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I also still have a few new colonies from the season that just passed. They all have just a few workers, but they have a bit of brood too, so they are growing.


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#39 Offline M_Ants - Posted July 30 2020 - 11:05 AM

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Caught some queens recently. Any advice on keeping these?


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