So, running off of the most recent topics, i would like to start this topic out of curiosity of how many years you have been keeping ants. I have been keeping ants for 5 years now.
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So, running off of the most recent topics, i would like to start this topic out of curiosity of how many years you have been keeping ants. I have been keeping ants for 5 years now.
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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Technically about 2 years or so.
Currently Keeping:
Camponotus chromaiodes, Camponotus nearcticus, Stigmatomma pallipes, Strumigenys brevisetosa, Strumigenys clypeata, Strumigenys louisianae, Strumigenys membranifera, Strumigenys reflexa, Strumigenys rostrata
So, running off of the most recent topics, i would like to start this topic out of curiosity of how many years you have been keeping ants. I have been keeping ants for 5 years now.
We started together, so the same.
"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
6 years. Half my life.
You're lucky you still have your first colony.
"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
Nearing the 1.5 year mark
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Just about 1.5 years. Caught my first queen about 6 years ago, but I never knew how to keeps them. I really started keeping ants in the summer of 2018.
Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies.
However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:
Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant).
April will be one year.
Billy
Currently keeping:
Camponotus chromaiodes
Camponotus castaneus
Formica subsericea
this is my 3-4th year, this is my first year I've had stuff make it through hibernation, usually all my ants die
congrats!
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Over that time I have kept over 30 species of ants, over 500 colonies, caught approximately 800-1000 queens, and kept over 50,000 ants. I have sold or traded approximately $1200 of colonies this year and last, and lost at least 400 of them during that time almost always due to travel. Some of my favorites include carebara longii, odontomachus ruginodis, and hypoponera. I have truly embraced this hobby and have started getting more interested in the photography and taxony side of it as well.
President & founder of LHS Entomology Club, (available on discord) Check out my photography website! https://www.armyofinsects.com/ Email me with questions
at jk@uglyorangetruck.com (funny email, I know)
wow, you're like a veteran at antkeeping
There is a important time for everything, important place for everyone, an important person for everybody, and an important ant for each and every ant keeper and myrmecologist alike
Except a veteran that refused to go out of the ant keeping army so cleverly disguised himself and did even more in his new career and then became the head of the whole army
There is a important time for everything, important place for everyone, an important person for everybody, and an important ant for each and every ant keeper and myrmecologist alike
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