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Large living ant colony on display in Southern California?


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#1 Offline TheElf2020 - Posted December 1 2014 - 7:49 PM

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I apologize if this is a very newbie question. I live in the LA area and I would love to take my kids to see a large ant colony. Does anyone know there is such a colony on display, maybe at the Natural History Museum or Science Center, or perhaps somewhere else in the LA area?

 

 

 



#2 Offline drtrmiller - Posted December 1 2014 - 7:55 PM

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http://zoo.sandiegoz...leaf-cutter-ant

 


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#3 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 1 2014 - 7:58 PM

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I think the closest you will get is the San Diego Zoo, where I think an Atta cephalotes colony is being kept. Atta cephalotes are a species of leaf cutter ant.



#4 Offline dspdrew - Posted December 1 2014 - 8:14 PM

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About four months ago I provided Los Angeles Museum of Natural History with a couple Pogonomyrmex colonies for an exhibit they supposedly have, so you might want to check there.



#5 Offline TheElf2020 - Posted December 2 2014 - 10:28 AM

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Thank you all. One of the entomology curators at the LA Natural History Museum just emailed me: "In our museum Nature Lab there is a small living ant colony displaying under  a glass box." I will check it out and try to get to San Diego as well.



#6 Offline Tpro4 - Posted December 2 2014 - 11:02 AM

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Take some pictures and post it in the forum.
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#7 Offline LAnt - Posted December 2 2014 - 6:09 PM

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At the California Science Center, right next to the NHM and free, they have a pogonomyrmex above ground display and a myrmecocystus (honey pots) below ground view. Its part of their environments exhibit, in the desert room. They also got tortoises. Heres a picture that's not mine.This would be my dream outworld.

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#8 Offline Gregory2455 - Posted December 2 2014 - 6:11 PM

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Apparently, those Pogonomyrmex are from Drew... :thinking:



#9 Offline LAnt - Posted December 2 2014 - 6:28 PM

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I don't think so. These have been there longer.

#10 Offline dspdrew - Posted December 4 2014 - 5:39 AM

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Well, if I remember right, she said they had a P. rogosus display, but the queen died. She then got a P. subnitidus and a P. rugosus from me to replace them with. She also described the nest to me, so without seeing the actual nest as well as the out world, it would be hard to say.






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