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#41 Offline Subverted - Posted August 24 2015 - 3:22 PM

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Novomessor cockerelli given to me by Drew, so far doing very well. There are 4 workers now but one is still waking up in this photo:

 


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#42 Offline LC3 - Posted August 24 2015 - 3:26 PM

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That queen has a really nice red colour. 



#43 Offline William. T - Posted August 24 2015 - 5:33 PM

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Interesting color. I don't suppose the North American Messor/Veromessor/Novomessor made it across the land bridge? :D


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1 Lasius cf. Neoniger 30 workers

1 Camponotus sp. 15 workers

20 Tetramorium SpE 30 workers

1 T. Sessile 200 workers

 


#44 Offline Subverted - Posted September 13 2015 - 3:51 PM

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This colony really loves to forage. Last night almost all the workers were out foraging when I turned on the light.

 

I have 4 honeypot queens with workers now so photos of them in the next few days!


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#45 Offline William. T - Posted September 13 2015 - 4:04 PM

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Beautiful footage! Do all desert ants in the SW smaller than a Pogonomyrmex forage at night?


Species I keep:

 

1 Lasius cf. Neoniger 30 workers

1 Camponotus sp. 15 workers

20 Tetramorium SpE 30 workers

1 T. Sessile 200 workers

 


#46 Offline Mdrogun - Posted September 13 2015 - 4:10 PM

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Wait you let them just roam on your desk? Won't they get attacked by argentine's?


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Trachymyrmex septentrionalis

Pheidole pilifera

Forelius sp. (Monogynous, bicolored) "Midwestern Forelius"
Crematogaster cerasi

Pheidole bicarinata

Aphaenogaster rudis

Camponotus chromaiodes

Formica sp. (microgena species)

Nylanderia cf. arenivega


#47 Offline Subverted - Posted September 13 2015 - 5:32 PM

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Wait you let them just roam on your desk? Won't they get attacked by argentine's?

 

So far they have been fine, but yes that is a constant threat to them and any of my ant (or other bug) containers they can get into.


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#48 Offline PogoQueen - Posted September 13 2015 - 7:29 PM

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Love the pictures of your Aspergillus flavus! Very cool :)



#49 Offline Subverted - Posted September 13 2015 - 9:05 PM

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Got a video of one of the honeypot colonies up tonight:

 

 

 

Love the pictures of your Aspergillus flavus! Very cool :)

 

Thanks! Are you pretty confident on that ID? Have any Aspergillus ID tips?
 


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#50 Offline kellakk - Posted September 13 2015 - 10:13 PM

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Hey wait, that black-and-red Myrmecocystus has way different workers than mine. The queen looks pretty much the same though.  Do you know what species it is?


Current Species:
Camponotus fragilis

Novomessor cockerelli

Pogonomyrmex montanus

Pogonomyrmex rugosus

Manica bradleyi

 

 


#51 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 14 2015 - 12:34 AM

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No! Not yellow afro!!!

 

How'd you get such a big P.gilvescens colony again?



#52 Offline Subverted - Posted September 14 2015 - 12:39 AM

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Hey wait, that black-and-red Myrmecocystus has way different workers than mine. The queen looks pretty much the same though.  Do you know what species it is?

 

I don't have any IDs on my Myrmecocystus besides the M. mexicanus and M. navajo. The queen in that video is the one on the far left in the first photo of this post: http://www.formicult...ge-2#entry26033

 

No! Not yellow afro!!!

 

How'd you get such a big P.gilvescens colony again?

 

I collected a queen and when digging up founding chambers I ran into a bunch of brood/workers. I put the fresh queen with the brood and workers the day after getting home and everything seemed to work out just fine. Possibly a video of them coming soon.


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#53 Offline PogoQueen - Posted September 14 2015 - 8:09 AM

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Yes I am pretty confident on that ID! I worked with this mold in the lab it is a very common contaminate aspergillus species. As far as I know it is the only yellow (from your 40x) aspergillus species. Your Direct mount was really hard to see the structures though. You can clean it up and it would help in future ID's if you could stain with lactophenol cotton blue if you have access to it and then covering the mold with a cover slip. For aspergillus I personally like the double sided sticky tape method because the conidia, phialide, and metula tend to disintegrate if your not careful about putting them on your direct mount. Here's a pretty good site to give you a  quick morphology of that species: http://www.coloss.or...II/fungal/2/3/1


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#54 Offline dspdrew - Posted September 14 2015 - 11:32 AM

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Hey wait, that black-and-red Myrmecocystus has way different workers than mine. The queen looks pretty much the same though.  Do you know what species it is?

 

Those workers actually look just like the workers of the "purple-back" ones I ID'd as M. mimicus. If you look at those queens he has, they really pretty much have the same colors as the "purple-back" queens, only one has much more of the darker color, and the other has much more of the lighter color. I've seen this a lot in other queens with a large color variation.


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#55 Offline Subverted - Posted September 23 2015 - 9:00 PM

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Went out for a short hike today and this Pseudomyrmex apache queen came running up to me. can't complain about that!

 


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#56 Offline specimen24-6 - Posted September 23 2015 - 9:11 PM

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She looks so primitive, like a wasp without wing. I can see why scientist think ants evolved from wasp :) I love primitive looking ants.

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#57 Offline kellakk - Posted September 23 2015 - 9:33 PM

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:|  So lucky...


Current Species:
Camponotus fragilis

Novomessor cockerelli

Pogonomyrmex montanus

Pogonomyrmex rugosus

Manica bradleyi

 

 


#58 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted September 23 2015 - 9:47 PM

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Went out for a short hike today and this Pseudomyrmex apache queen came running up to me. can't complain about that!

 

I wonder if your's will lay any eggs. Mine has not ever since I caught her back in June.



#59 Offline dspdrew - Posted September 24 2015 - 5:50 AM

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Wow lucky you. It will be interesting to see if you get any further than I did with these.



#60 Offline LC3 - Posted September 24 2015 - 2:29 PM

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Good luck sub. :)






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