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#1 Offline Rutto23 - Posted August 31 2017 - 7:05 AM

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I caught a queen after rainstorm.Saw myself how she ripped her wings.I don't know her species please help.Location:Romania.She can't be lasius latipes or claviger.

 

 

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#2 Offline VoidElecent - Posted August 31 2017 - 7:22 AM

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Cryptopone ochracea.


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#3 Offline Ant Broski - Posted August 31 2017 - 11:13 AM

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Cryptopone ochracea.


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#4 Offline Rutto23 - Posted August 31 2017 - 9:02 PM

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Cryptopone ochracea.

Thanks a lot.Also do you have any tips for raising this queen?I can't find much about this species.Only their size and that they live in europe and saudi arabia.



#5 Offline VoidElecent - Posted September 4 2017 - 9:47 AM

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Cryptopone ochracea.

Thanks a lot.Also do you have any tips for raising this queen?I can't find much about this species.Only their size and that they live in europe and saudi arabia.

 

 

From what I know, these ants are pretty rare and inconspicuous. I'd recommend raising them as you would with semi-claustral queens.



#6 Offline Jonathan21700 - Posted September 5 2017 - 12:51 PM

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Yes, C. ochracea. I found queens from this species twice but didn't have much success. I kept the first one in a test tube filled whit substrate. She made some tunnels and and small chamber and settled well, from time to time she would come to forage and take back fruit flies and springtails back to her chamber. Species that fly at this time of the year do not lay eggs now but wait for hibernation and then lay eggs in spring. I decided to trick her and brought her for a week outside in the cold and then back in. The next day I noticed she had laid a very elongate egg but soon it got eaten. She was then placed in hibernation again. In the middle of winter the problem whit the test tube setup came the water had dried out fully. I took her out of hibernation and tried to move her to a soil nest but she refused to dig again and died. The other queen I caught last year managed to escape from the nest I made for her. So the thing is you will need to make a setup whit high humidity and a renewable water source because this is not a species you could easily move from one test tube to another. I have now made a new setup, a small grout nest whit one chamber filled whit soil and a tube leading to a water tank underneath the chamber. For this I use 2 Tic tac boxes. I can't really explain but I can post pics if you want. I hope to find a queen this season to try this out. Good luck!


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