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The Ponera Dilemma (Help please)

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#1 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 6 2017 - 2:01 PM

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Hi!
I found a tiny portion of a colony of Ponera pennsylvanica while reconstructing my terrarium. It has four workers and one female alate (might be mated). I also happen to have a Ponera pennsylvanica queen, and I've been thinking about introducing her to the others. Should I fuse the two colonies or should I keep my queen separate?

NOTE: I put one of the workers with the single queen to see the reaction and they got along fine.


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#2 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted October 8 2017 - 1:00 PM

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Hmm I'm not sure, I heard that pinerine ant workers can accept queens...You could try gping back and collecting more workers and hoepfully establish a gamergate...
Keep us updated on how it works, by the way!

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.

 


#3 Offline Mettcollsuss - Posted October 8 2017 - 5:34 PM

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A couple weeks back I happened to stumble across a P. pennsylvanica nuptial flight. I managed to snag a queen, and have been keeping her in a test tube setup. She doesn't have any eggs yet, but she's still alive, so that's something.



#4 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 8 2017 - 5:39 PM

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A couple weeks back I happened to stumble across a P. pennsylvanica nuptial flight. I managed to snag a queen, and have been keeping her in a test tube setup. She doesn't have any eggs yet, but she's still alive, so that's something.

Same. I think that Ponera queens lay in the spring.

 

Hmm I'm not sure, I heard that pinerine ant workers can accept queens...You could try gping back and collecting more workers and hoepfully establish a gamergate...
Keep us updated on how it works, by the way!

Thanks. I'm not sure if I want a gamer gate colony, though, because I don't want too many males.


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#5 Online Canadian anter - Posted October 8 2017 - 7:00 PM

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Ok, to clarify, Stigmatomma and Ponera don't have gamergates. Also, the only succesful attempts with lone Ponera and Stigmatomma were with helper workers.


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#6 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 9 2017 - 5:48 AM

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I knew it!
 

MegaMyrmex apparently has a gamer gate colony of Ponera pennsylvanica, though.


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#7 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 9 2017 - 7:47 AM

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I ended up giving my Ponera pennsylvanica queen a helper worker.


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#8 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 29 2017 - 6:30 AM

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The Ponera queen is now with the wild workers, and they are doing very well.


Edited by Connectimyrmex, October 29 2017 - 6:31 AM.

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#9 Offline MegaMyrmex - Posted October 29 2017 - 3:11 PM

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I knew it!
 
MegaMyrmex apparently has a gamer gate colony of Ponera pennsylvanica, though.

I don't know if it was a gamergate or not, all i know was that i saw a little pile of eggs and none of the ants looked queen- like. Perhaps I was wrong but the colony is gone now since they all died when I moved them into a test tube setup...These guys don't seem to do well in a test tube setup

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.

 


#10 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 29 2017 - 3:40 PM

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My colony is doing fine in their custom test tube (fashioned from a rubber plug and a drinking straw)


Hawaiiant (Ben)

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Baby Wolf Spider
Mud Dauber wasp larvae
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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





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