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#41 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 8 2021 - 9:42 PM

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Well, good news and bad news. Both about mites.

 

Good news: There are fewer mites on the C. irritans queen and workers.

 

Bad news: The mites on the Colobopsis cf leonardi colony is most likely parasitic.


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#42 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 9 2021 - 2:37 AM

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My Camponotus subbarbatus got a major in their second generation.
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#43 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 9 2021 - 6:18 PM

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Last night I caught a Technomyrmex queen!  :yahoo: I was actually wondering if she was semi or fully claustral because the workers and queens look almost identical  :thinking:.


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#44 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted July 10 2021 - 12:40 AM

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Last night I caught a Technomyrmex queen! :yahoo: I was actually wondering if she was semi or fully claustral because the workers and queens look almost identical :thinking:.

Feed her just in case. I want technomyrmex cuz I find them cute.

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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): Camponotus irritans inferior, Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, Nylanderia sp., Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#45 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 10 2021 - 3:10 AM

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Last night I caught a Technomyrmex queen! :yahoo: I was actually wondering if she was semi or fully claustral because the workers and queens look almost identical :thinking:.

Feed her just in case. I want technomyrmex cuz I find them cute.

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Well, okay, I'll try feeding her. I've actually had a few attempts in the past, back then I raised them like a normal fully claustral queen but they didn't succeed.


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#46 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 10 2021 - 8:33 PM

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My Camponotus subbarbatus got a major in their second generation.

My colony's major is probably in the third or fourth generation but I could be wrong.


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#47 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 10 2021 - 8:36 PM

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Update: Most of the mites have come off the C. irritans colony. And I think I saw the Anochetus queen is holding a larva.

 

Edit: It's been confirmed! There IS a larva!


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#48 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 12 2021 - 9:10 PM

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Update: Last night I saw that the Anochetus queen has three larvae but now she moved the eggs and possibly the small larvae to the ceiling of her nest making it hard for me to properly count the amount of larvae she has, it may even be possible that she ate them (I hope she didn't eat them).

 

Edit: As of right now, four larvae have been confirmed.


Edited by SYUTEO, July 12 2021 - 10:37 PM.

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#49 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 13 2021 - 2:23 AM

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I just caught a tiny black Monomorium queen (looks similar to M. minimum).


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#50 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted July 13 2021 - 3:06 AM

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I just caught a tiny black Monomorium queen (looks similar to M. minimum).

It's probably M. monomorium. They were recently updated into the Malaysian ant database in antweb.

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Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): Camponotus irritans inferior, Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, Nylanderia sp., Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#51 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 13 2021 - 7:30 PM

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Sadly, the Odontomachus simillimus queen has died. :(


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#52 Offline DIACAMMAWORLDCOOL - Posted July 13 2021 - 8:05 PM

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Sadly, the Odontomachus simillimus queen has died. :(

Similimus is HARD to raise from a queen. I got 2 colonies, caught as a colony.  :)


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#53 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 13 2021 - 9:06 PM

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Sadly, the Odontomachus simillimus queen has died. :(

Similimus is HARD to raise from a queen. I got 2 colonies, caught as a colony.  :)

 

I raised that queen successfully but after the first generation, the larvae failed to pupate and then all the workers died, only the queen is left. Now, she's gone.


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#54 Offline DIACAMMAWORLDCOOL - Posted July 13 2021 - 9:18 PM

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Sadly, the Odontomachus simillimus queen has died. :(

Similimus is HARD to raise from a queen. I got 2 colonies, caught as a colony.  :)

 

I raised that queen successfully but after the first generation, the larvae failed to pupate and then all the workers died, only the queen is left. Now, she's gone.

 

Yeah once, one of my queens raised the first generation which was a single worker and then ate it.


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#55 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted July 13 2021 - 11:20 PM

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Sadly, the Odontomachus simillimus queen has died. :(

Similimus is HARD to raise from a queen. I got 2 colonies, caught as a colony. :)
I raised that queen successfully but after the first generation, the larvae failed to pupate and then all the workers died, only the queen is left. Now, she's gone.
Yeah once, one of my queens raised the first generation which was a single worker and then ate it.
ouch. Fingers crossed that won't happen to mine. Tho all trap jaws in odontomachus are more simple. Adequate feeding and proper maintenance guarantees success.

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Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): Camponotus irritans inferior, Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, Nylanderia sp., Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#56 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 14 2021 - 12:28 AM

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Sadly, the Odontomachus simillimus queen has died. :(

Similimus is HARD to raise from a queen. I got 2 colonies, caught as a colony. :)
I raised that queen successfully but after the first generation, the larvae failed to pupate and then all the workers died, only the queen is left. Now, she's gone.
Yeah once, one of my queens raised the first generation which was a single worker and then ate it.
ouch. Fingers crossed that won't happen to mine. Tho all trap jaws in odontomachus are more simple. Adequate feeding and proper maintenance guarantees success.

Sent from my CPH2201 using Tapatalk

 

That happened to my Odontoponera denticulata queen.


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#57 Offline ANTS_KL - Posted July 14 2021 - 12:32 AM

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Sadly, the Odontomachus simillimus queen has died. :(

Similimus is HARD to raise from a queen. I got 2 colonies, caught as a colony. :)

I raised that queen successfully but after the first generation, the larvae failed to pupate and then all the workers died, only the queen is left. Now, she's gone.

Yeah once, one of my queens raised the first generation which was a single worker and then ate it.

ouch. Fingers crossed that won't happen to mine. Tho all trap jaws in odontomachus are more simple. Adequate feeding and proper maintenance guarantees success.

Sent from my CPH2201 using Tapatalk


That happened to my Odontoponera denticulata queen.

My odontoponera never laid eggs

Sent from my CPH2201 using Tapatalk
Young ant keeper with a decent amount of knowledge on local ant species.

YouTube: https://m.youtube.co...uKsahGliSH7EqOQ (It's pretty dead. Might upload again soon, don't expect my voice to sound the same though.)

Currently kept ant species, favorites have a star in front of their names (NOT in alphabetical order, also may be outdated sometimes): Camponotus irritans inferior, Ooceraea biroi, Pheidole parva, Nylanderia sp., Paraparatrechina tapinomoides, Platythyrea sp., Anochetus sp., Colobopsis sp. (cylindrica group), Crematogaster ferrarii, Polyrhachis (Myrma) cf. pruinosa, Polyrhachis (Cyrtomyrma) laevissima, Tapinoma sp. (formerly Zatapinoma)

Death count: Probably over a hundred individual queens and colonies by now. I cannot recall whatsoever.

#58 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 14 2021 - 12:38 AM

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Sadly, the Odontomachus simillimus queen has died. :(

Similimus is HARD to raise from a queen. I got 2 colonies, caught as a colony. :)

I raised that queen successfully but after the first generation, the larvae failed to pupate and then all the workers died, only the queen is left. Now, she's gone.

Yeah once, one of my queens raised the first generation which was a single worker and then ate it.

ouch. Fingers crossed that won't happen to mine. Tho all trap jaws in odontomachus are more simple. Adequate feeding and proper maintenance guarantees success.

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That happened to my Odontoponera denticulata queen.
My odontoponera never laid eggs

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I guess it usually depends on when you catch the queens, queens that are caught just after mating usually laid eggs and queens that already raised some brood before being captured usually don't lay eggs. And my Odontoponera queens almost never let their larvae pupate for some reason.


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#59 Offline SYUTEO - Posted July 15 2021 - 5:34 PM

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A few updates, Camponotus parius also had mites, though not a lot of them. Anochetus now has five larvae and Monomorium queen has a small pile of eggs.


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#60 Offline ANTdrew - Posted July 15 2021 - 6:34 PM

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Photos of the Monomorium, please.
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