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SoDak (Society of Dakotan Ant Keepers) Official Ant Keeping Thread

ant keeping south dakota camponotus formica lasius solenopsis molesta aphaenogaster tetramorium pogonomyrmex occidentalis myrmica ponera brachymyrmex

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#81 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted April 22 2020 - 2:52 PM

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Ok, nice How many did you catch?


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#82 Offline AntsDakota - Posted April 22 2020 - 3:51 PM

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They were workers, not queens. I didn’t catch any.

"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version


#83 Offline Thunder_Birds - Posted April 22 2020 - 8:07 PM

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Oh ok:)


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#84 Offline AntsDakota - Posted April 23 2020 - 6:37 AM

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I find it interesting that you can roughly judge a (Lasius) colony's strength by the number of mounds and nest entrances they have. Most had one or two, sometimes three, the larger ones had five or so, a couple even had close to ten.


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version


#85 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted April 23 2020 - 2:00 PM

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Or the size of the mounds.


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. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

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#86 Offline Ants4fun - Posted April 23 2020 - 5:07 PM

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So weird. Was planting a tree in my yard and opened up a claustral cell of a L. Neoniger queen and nanifics. Unfortunately the shovel killed the queen, but was only 6 inches deep. Didn’t know they would have nanitics already, considering the temp has only recently gotten warm.

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#87 Offline AntsDakota - Posted April 23 2020 - 5:36 PM

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I’ve experienced that Lasius lay eggs before winter around here. I once caught an americanus queen in early September during the main neoniger flight. She raised a colony of thirty workers before winter.
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#88 Offline Ants4fun - Posted April 23 2020 - 5:54 PM

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Lasius americanus fly earlier and are known to rear workers before winter. It’s thought that L. Neoniger wait until spring. How are your guys’ P imparis doing? Mine have a large clump of eggs. Ended up putting them all in one formicarium.

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#89 Offline AntsDakota - Posted April 24 2020 - 10:22 AM

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Lasius americanus fly earlier and are known to rear workers before winter. It’s thought that L. Neoniger wait until spring. How are your guys’ P imparis doing? Mine have a large clump of eggs. Ended up putting them all in one formicarium.

My four (five if you count the one I found) haven't laid anything yet, but Ants_Dakota's queen laid one egg. I expect them all to have more eggs next week.


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#90 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted April 26 2020 - 8:17 AM

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I just got an aphaenogaster tennesseensis colony. I am not sure if it has a queen, but i will wait and see. They appear to like rotten wood. Is that right?


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#91 Offline AntsDakota - Posted April 28 2020 - 5:23 AM

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On Sunday, Ants_Dakota and I went anting in a local wooded area (not a park, less disturbed than that) and brought back a few interesting species. 

 

We got a Lasius brevicornis colony, which I now have,

 

a few Myrmica colonies, which we divided among ourselves,

 

a small Formica colony with 7 queens and a dozen or so workers, which Ants_Dakota got,

 

a small Ponera pennsylvanica colony, which I now have,

 

and while sorting all this out at Ants_Dakota's house, we found a parasitic Lasius queen, which I now have. 

 

Ants_Dakota also went on another trip by himself, where he found an Aphaenogaster tennesseenis colony for himself, as previously mentioned,

 

and Prenolepis imparis workers, which we introduced to our queens.


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#92 Offline Ants4fun - Posted April 28 2020 - 6:17 AM

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Nice finds! I almost collected a few of those Aephenogaster but didn’t find the queens. I wonder if I am misidentifying them as tenneseensis. For a parasitic aephenogaster, they seem very prolific, and Is seem to find them more than any other Aephenogaster. A couple of my queens died so I divided them up. I think adding Prenolepis workers is a good idea. Might have to try that.
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#93 Offline AntsExodus - Posted April 28 2020 - 8:18 AM

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I wish a lot of Georgian ant keepers are active here. Only people who want to buy or sell something come but not for talking or making journals. :( 


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#94 Offline AntsDakota - Posted April 28 2020 - 9:02 AM

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I wish a lot of Georgian ant keepers are active here. Only people who want to buy or sell something come but not for talking or making journals. :(

It was like that for me, too. I was alone. Then Ants4Fun became active again, and my friends, Ants_Dakota and Thunder_Birds joined, so I bet you'll grow a little community eventually.  :)


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#95 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted April 28 2020 - 9:10 AM

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My myrmica colony has 41 queens now! I did not evan want that many, but that is what i got!


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#96 Offline AntsDakota - Posted April 28 2020 - 9:12 AM

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I'm fine with my 18.  :lol:


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#97 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted May 7 2020 - 1:55 PM

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I am looking for any aphaenogaster tennesseensis queens or rudis queens! I will pay cash or trade with a AntsDakota desktop grout nest(is that a good name, AntsDakota?)


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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. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

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#98 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted May 8 2020 - 9:26 AM

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Also, i believe that we will be getting a new member from South Dakota soon! They may not post that often, but they will be keeping ants!


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#99 Offline Ants_Dakota - Posted May 9 2020 - 5:24 PM

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I have a hypoponera colony with 2 queens and 10-15 workers available, if anyone is interested.


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. -Proverbs 6: 6-8

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#100 Offline AntsDakota - Posted May 13 2020 - 2:49 PM

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It's supposed to get into the 80s next week, and a couple days before it's supposed to rain. Maybe Camponotus will fly...............


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