Jump to content

  • Chat
  •  
  •  

Welcome to Formiculture.com!

This is a website for anyone interested in Myrmecology and all aspects of finding, keeping, and studying ants. The site and forum are free to use. Register now to gain access to all of our features. Once registered and logged in, you will be able to create topics, post replies to existing threads, give reputation points to your fellow members, get your own private messenger, post status updates, manage your profile and so much more. If you already have an account, login here - otherwise create an account for free today!

Photo

Camponotus chromaiodes Journal


  • Please log in to reply
1 reply to this topic

#1 Offline Kevin - Posted November 25 2016 - 9:50 AM

Kevin

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 833 posts
  • LocationSouth Jersey

So recently I've been finding a lot of these colonies. I found 2 today and 1 yesterday. I accidentally sucked up the 2 from today in the same aspirator, so I put them in the fridge into as even groups as possible without getting escapees, and they seem to be fine. Fingers crossed!

Here's the 2 colonies I found today, I put them in some BoxBox mini's with a small cotton ball for now. I'm planning to work on a formicaria using BoxBox mini's for founding colonies, like drew's. I think I will transfer these colonies to testubes soon, and put the bigger colony in the BoxBox.

 

 

1 colony has 9 workers, and the other as 5. I might try to even it out a bit more later.

 

 

 

 

Here's the big colony I caught yesterday. I haven't really counted, but I'm assuming there's about 20 workers with majors.
 

 

 

One of the small colonies I caught today had a pile of eggs, but I dumped out all the ants out of the aspirator as soon as I noticed I combined them on accident, and I lost most of them.

These will be going into hibernation very soon.


  • MrILoveTheAnts likes this

Hit "Like This" if it helped.


#2 Offline Kevin - Posted November 26 2016 - 11:25 AM

Kevin

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 833 posts
  • LocationSouth Jersey

I caught 7 more of these today. I'm trying to figure out a way to make BoxBox formicaria without using an entire box just for hydration.


Hit "Like This" if it helped.





1 user(s) are reading this topic

0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users