Need to update this. Been gone a while. Will update soon.

Edited by M_Ants, August 9 2020 - 4:05 PM.

Update. V. andrei queens are doing well. The productive one has 2 workers. The others have various stages of brood. Pogonomyrmex are dead. Not surprised about that. V. pergandei are growing super fast. Pics later. 

V. pergandei are growing strong. Might make them a CatsnAnts style nest soon. What size, depth, tunnel shape, etc. would you recommend? V. andrei are doing awesome. Sold 1 colony still have 2 for sale.

V. pergandei continue to grow. I think I might sell them. OhNoNotAgain's journal scares me. I can't afford a THA XXXXXLLLL Pioneer. I saw a wild colony in the desert. SCARY BIG.    Sold most of my V. andrei.  My personal colony lost a few workers but gained a few as well. 

V. pergandei continue to grow. I think I might sell them. OhNoNotAgain's journal scares me. I can't afford a THA XXXXXLLLL Pioneer. I saw a wild colony in the desert. SCARY BIG.    Sold most of my V. andrei.  My personal colony lost a few workers but gained a few as well. 

how large do they get?

see now you have me worried, i have v. pergandei as well as tetramorium ;-;

Read OhNoNotAgain's journal for starters. 

Read OhNoNotAgain's journal for starters. 

i can't find it for some reason...

[nvm, found it  ]

Edited by Swirlysnowflake, November 16 2020 - 4:54 PM.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO! One of the Vero queens was on the trash pile. Her front legs were missing. She appears to be barely alive but is basically dead. I don't know why she died. However I'm guessing she's the queen I always noticed upside down in the test tube. Strangely she's been acting like that for months and just now died. Rip.

RIP

About time I update this. I made a CatsnAnts style grout nest a long time ago and moved the pergandei in. They are doing pretty good it. Andrei are slowly growing still. 

Thanks for updating, I really like these species.

Pergandei are doing alright although I'm stupid and didn't water enough leading to a queen dying. Andrei won't grow. They are basically a bonsai colony. Went anting a week or two ago and caught some P. calis that now have eggs and one has a larvae. 

Caught 4 ver. andrei last night. Saw some colonies as well. Put queens in test tubes with sand and seeds.

what is there a velvet ant in there?

Since people are talking about formiculture "dying", here's an update to help combat that. My pergandei are doing great and are at the size I want them to be. If I fed more they would be out of control so I keep them at this size so they're manageable. They've recently gotten really large workers as well. 

Edited by M_Ants, January 20 2023 - 5:20 PM.

V. pergandei are still alive and well.  I also have some P. cf cali, various Pheidole, and V. andrei castaneus as well as the regular black ones.