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Forest's Proceratium Pergandei journal


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#1 Offline ForestDragon - Posted August 25 2019 - 2:45 PM

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SO time I start another one eh? this is one pretty rare species around here and I am wanting to show off her spectacularness (without pictures ofc what am I... RICH? HAHAHAHAHA) so I caught her a couple weeks ago and I just fed her her first spider egg sac and I don't know if she has eaten any (she's dug in her hole which I have no Idea where it is she is that small) and I am pretty excited to see if she gets a colony going or not she has dug a hole and made a chamber of some kind, but she has yet to shed her wings which leaves me kind of skeptical, she was found under a log so I hope she is fertile



#2 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted August 25 2019 - 3:01 PM

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Pics or it didn't happen :lol:. Proceratium is extremely rare.

Edited by YsTheAnt, August 25 2019 - 4:55 PM.

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#3 Offline ForestDragon - Posted August 25 2019 - 3:15 PM

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Pics or it didn't happen haha. Proceratium is extremely rare.

bro I have a flip phone and no way to even send pics so good luck tryin to get em out of me not to mention IT can't FOCUS ON HER she's that small



#4 Offline YsTheAnt - Posted August 25 2019 - 4:55 PM

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Haha. I'll believe it's Proceratium when I see it.

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#5 Offline 123LordOfAnts123 - Posted August 25 2019 - 8:05 PM

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At about 5mm Proceratium pergandei queens are decent sized by their genera’s standards, so I wouldn’t call them *that* small.

#6 Offline ponerinecat - Posted August 26 2019 - 2:39 PM

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I'm guessing sucess rate is pretty bad, hope she raises workers.

 

 

(I know I already said this, but could I have the body if the worst happens?)



#7 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted August 26 2019 - 3:46 PM

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Pics or it didn't happen haha. Proceratium is extremely rare.

bro I have a flip phone and no way to even send pics so good luck tryin to get em out of me not to mention IT can't FOCUS ON HER she's that small

 

Sorry if I sound rude, but couldn't you take a picture with someone else's phone, send that photo to your email, and post on a computer?


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#8 Offline ForestDragon - Posted August 26 2019 - 3:52 PM

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Pics or it didn't happen haha. Proceratium is extremely rare.

bro I have a flip phone and no way to even send pics so good luck tryin to get em out of me not to mention IT can't FOCUS ON HER she's that small

 

Sorry if I sound rude, but couldn't you take a picture with someone else's phone, send that photo to your email, and post on a computer?

 

Maybe but she is buried in a hole somewhere in the cup so it would be hard especially since I don't know where the hole is XD


I'm guessing sucess rate is pretty bad, hope she raises workers.

 

 

(I know I already said this, but could I have the body if the worst happens?)

heeeeck no the body is MINE I plan to preserve her in hand sanitizer



#9 Offline ponerinecat - Posted August 26 2019 - 4:48 PM

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I'm guessing sucess rate is pretty bad, hope she raises workers.

 

 

(I know I already said this, but could I have the body if the worst happens?)

heeeeck no the body is MINE I plan to preserve her in hand sanitizer

 

Alcohol tends to discolor the specimen though.


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