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#21 Offline FinWins - Posted September 8 2022 - 9:57 AM

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You’ll need to give the repletes something to hang on. They also like their sugars.


I keep: C. modoc, C. sansabeanus  :D, C. maritimus, Formica argentea, M. mexicanus  :D, Odontomachus brunneus :D, Pogonomyrmex californicus, Pogonomyrmex rugosus, 

 


#22 Offline aznphenom - Posted September 8 2022 - 10:28 AM

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You’ll need to give the repletes something to hang on. They also like their sugars.

Pogonomyrmex have repletes? table sugar? the cubes?


Keeps: Camponotus, Tetra
 

Wants (Please reach out if you have them for sale if you’re in the US): Acromyrmex Sp., Atta Sp., Cephalotes Sp., Myrmecocystus Sp (Prefer Mexicanus), Odontomachus Sp. (Prefer Desertorum), Pachycondyla Sp., Pheidole Sp (Prefer Rhea. The bigger the better. Not the tiny bicarinata), Pogonomyrmex Sp (Prefer Badius)., Pseudomyrmex Sp. (Prefer the cute yellow ones)

 


#23 Offline United-Ants - Posted September 10 2022 - 7:02 PM

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Rip Myrmecocystus mexicanus queen had a weird mold burst out of her😭😭

Edited by United-Ants, September 10 2022 - 7:03 PM.


#24 Offline United-Ants - Posted September 10 2022 - 7:28 PM

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I don't think I will ever keep honey pot ants again dead pots
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Edited by United-Ants, September 10 2022 - 7:34 PM.


#25 Offline United-Ants - Posted September 26 2022 - 11:45 AM

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Pogonomyrmex occidentalis eating water melon seeds
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#26 Offline United-Ants - Posted October 27 2022 - 8:06 AM

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10-27-22 update on colony's only next update will be on the founding queens

Pogonomyrmex  occidentalis 

colony a age 1 year 300to400

workers 

​they are doing very good

lots of brood  tried some pumpkin seed

they loved it

colony b  25+workers age 1 year 

slowing down for hibernation 

Pogonomyrmex  barbatus age unknown 
70 to 100 workers 

almost no brood do i hibernate them?


Edited by United-Ants, October 27 2022 - 8:10 AM.

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