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#1 Offline Devi - Posted August 5 2020 - 10:14 AM

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Alright, so I have a pogonomyrmex occidentalis queen in a tub and tubes setup so she can go forage for seeds if she wants to.  I have sand and rocks I got from a deserted pogonomyrmex nest that I put in there, and I change out some leaves and sticks every so often so it feels more natural.  I have been careful to make sure their aren't anything that could harm the queen on the leaves and sticks, (mites, etc) and today a small mite almost escaped me and I barely caught it before I added the leaves to the outworld.  What do you guys do to fix this?  Do you know of a way to make sure their aren't any mites, or a good brand of fake leaves I could use instead?



#2 Offline Spazmops - Posted August 5 2020 - 12:06 PM

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Bake whatever you’re going to put into the outworld in the oven


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Ants I have:

1 Formica fusca group- 0 workers

1 Tetramorium immigrans colony-20 workers

1 Dorymyrmex insanus- 1 queen, used to have workers

 

1 large P. occidentalis colony- around 50 workers, plenty of brood

 

 





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