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How old is your colony?

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Poll: How old is your oldest colony? (20 member(s) have cast votes)

How old is your oldest colony?

  1. Less than 6 months (8 votes [40.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 40.00%

  2. 6-12 months (3 votes [15.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 15.00%

  3. 1-3 years (6 votes [30.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 30.00%

  4. 3-5 years (1 votes [5.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.00%

  5. 5+ (2 votes [10.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.00%

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#1 Offline Ants4fun - Posted July 23 2018 - 9:20 AM

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Doing a little research on our community. It seems like the most active people on this forum are new people. Thanks

Edited by Ants4fun, July 23 2018 - 10:53 AM.

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#2 Offline AntsAreUs - Posted July 23 2018 - 9:23 AM

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Well I wish I knew how old my wild caught colonies were.



#3 Offline Ants4fun - Posted July 23 2018 - 9:29 AM

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Well I wish I knew how old my wild caught colonies were.


Well you could put how long you've had them. Thanks

#4 Offline sgheaton - Posted July 23 2018 - 10:38 AM

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Where is the 2-to-3 year mark?!      

 

Originally captured 6/20/2016. Have had 2 successful hibernation periods. Isn't as big as it could be. I cleaned things up yesterday, should make a journal post about it, yeah?


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#5 Offline Ants4fun - Posted July 23 2018 - 10:54 AM

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Haha, sorry for the typo. You should make a journal.

#6 Offline FeedTheAnts - Posted July 23 2018 - 1:09 PM

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I have a Formica colony that I'm almost certain was a year old when I caught, which was this time last year. So it is two years old, with about 900 workers.

My youngest colony(ironically my largest) is a Crematogaster colony. It is 13 months old and has around a thousand workers. 


I accidentally froze all my ants 


#7 Offline Ants4fun - Posted July 23 2018 - 1:36 PM

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Let me elaborate. The purpose was to see how long our members have been keeping ants, not how old their colony might be. I probably should have rephrased the question.
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