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#1 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 29 2017 - 6:27 AM

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Hi!
Yesterday I went to the beach on a quest to find Maritime Earwigs, but instead I found a bunch of ants, bees, and myrmecophiles. I ended up keeping one Bumblebee(queen?) and two myrmecophilic isopods (I lost them both :(). I also saw several interesting ants, most of which should not normally occur in CT. Here they are:
Linepithema humile, running on fencepost

Polyergus montivagus, scouting workers

A large and fairly large headed Myrmica sp, building up a small anthill

An odd Ponerine that was fairly large and elongated, sort of like Hypoponera, nesting under rocks in groups of 3-4

Any idea what they were doing there? I know that L. humile is tropical, so maybe it hitchhiked over and will die over the winter.


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#2 Offline VoidElecent - Posted October 29 2017 - 6:36 AM

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Are you sure you saw Linepithema humile? They look similar to Tapinoma sessile.


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#3 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 29 2017 - 1:12 PM

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Pretty sure, but not 100% sure. They kind of had a longer abdomen than the average T. sessile.


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Plagiolepis Alluaudi
Anoplolepis Gracilipes
Technomyrmex Difficilis
Pheidole Megacephala
Aholehole fish
Cowrie snail
Sea Fan Worm
100+ sea squirts
Tree seedlings
Ghost Crab
Day Gecko
Small Fat Centipede
Endemic Lacewing larva
Vernal Pool shrimps

#4 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted October 30 2017 - 11:05 AM

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What did the ponerine ants look like? Fo they look like stigmatomma, perhaps?

Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.

 


#5 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 30 2017 - 11:15 AM

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I know what Stigmatomma looks like, I have a colony of my own. The ponerines looked like Hypoponera, but bigger, darker, and faster.


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Plagiolepis Alluaudi
Anoplolepis Gracilipes
Technomyrmex Difficilis
Pheidole Megacephala
Aholehole fish
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Sea Fan Worm
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Tree seedlings
Ghost Crab
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#6 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted November 7 2017 - 9:43 AM

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I would suggest brachyponera chinensis but I don't think in CT...

Proverbs 6:6-8 New International Version (NIV)

Go to the ant, you sluggard;
    consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander,
    no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer
    and gathers its food at harvest.

 


#7 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted November 7 2017 - 11:39 AM

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Yeah, they aren't.


Hawaiiant (Ben)

Keeper of
Miniature Labradoodle
Baby Wolf Spider
Mud Dauber wasp larvae
Ochetellus Glaber
Solenopsis Geminata
Brachymyrmex Obscurior
Cardiocondyla Emeryi
Tetramorium Bicarinatum
Plagiolepis Alluaudi
Anoplolepis Gracilipes
Technomyrmex Difficilis
Pheidole Megacephala
Aholehole fish
Cowrie snail
Sea Fan Worm
100+ sea squirts
Tree seedlings
Ghost Crab
Day Gecko
Small Fat Centipede
Endemic Lacewing larva
Vernal Pool shrimps




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