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TennesseeAnts' Ant Journals (Everything Died)

Started By TennesseeAnts , May 30 2019 4:29 AM
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#801 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted May 25 2020 - 7:32 AM

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I wish my Pogonomyrmex survived.


#802 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 25 2020 - 7:36 AM

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I wish my Pogonomyrmex survived.

I hope you have better luck this year. Try to find really easy species, nothing fancy.
"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#803 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted May 25 2020 - 7:45 AM

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I have a Ponera queen now and she is doing pretty well.


#804 Offline AntsDakota - Posted May 25 2020 - 7:54 AM

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I wish my Pogonomyrmex survived.

I hope you have better luck this year. Try to find really easy species, nothing fancy.
Pogonomyrmex are pretty easy. Either that or I’m getting real good at this ant keeping thing.

Edited by AntsDakota, May 25 2020 - 7:55 AM.

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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. (including ants) And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

#805 Offline ANTdrew - Posted May 25 2020 - 9:20 AM

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I think many of the Pogonomyrmex THA is selling are not the strongest. My buddy here had issues with his, too.
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#806 Offline AntsDakota - Posted May 25 2020 - 9:29 AM

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I think many of the Pogonomyrmex THA is selling are not the strongest. My buddy here had issues with his, too.

Then I guess I got one of the better colonies.
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#807 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 5 2020 - 9:26 AM

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#808 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 5 2020 - 4:08 PM

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#809 Offline AntsDakota - Posted June 5 2020 - 4:52 PM

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Wow. Can’t wait till my colony gets that big. How old is yours?
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#810 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 5 2020 - 4:56 PM

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Wow. Can’t wait till my colony gets that big. How old is yours?

I caught part of a large colony, that must have been over 3k strong, so probably 3-4 years old. I left behind 3 queens with the rest of the colony.


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#811 Offline AntsDakota - Posted June 5 2020 - 4:58 PM

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Oh, that’s that colony. I remember reading about them.
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#812 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 5 2020 - 5:00 PM

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Oh, that’s that colony. I remember reading about them.

Yeah! They've really been growing lately. They're up to 350-400 workers now.


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#813 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 11 2020 - 7:44 AM

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Update; 6/11/20

Camponotus pennsylvanicus; Colony #1
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Verdandi is up to 12 workers, with a couple larvae, 2 dozen or so eggs and a few pupae. So far they've been eating cockroaches and sugar water, with the occasional fruit flies. Her colony should be above 50 workers by the end of this season in November. I'll grab some pics soon.

Camponotus americanus; Colonies #1 & #2
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Queen #1 has 2 pupae, 4 large larvae and a few small larvae, and Queen #2 has a single pupa and 9 large larvae. Both queens might get workers this week. @ANTdrew, both queens need names!

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#814 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 11 2020 - 8:25 AM

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Verdandi and her workers:

 

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Camponotus americanus Queen #2 and larvae:
 
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Camponotus decipiens queen with workers:

 

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#815 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 11 2020 - 11:10 AM

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Update; 6/11/20

Camponotus pennsylvanicus; Colony #1
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Verdandi is up to 12 workers, with a couple larvae, 2 dozen or so eggs and a few pupae. So far they've been eating cockroaches and sugar water, with the occasional fruit flies. Her colony should be above 50 workers by the end of this season in November. I'll grab some pics soon.

Camponotus americanus; Colonies #1 & #2
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Queen #1 has 2 pupae, 4 large larvae and a few small larvae, and Queen #2 has a single pupa and 9 large larvae. Both queens might get workers this week. @ANTdrew, both queens need names!

They shall be Urd and Skuld. Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld were the three Norns that weave the fate of men - past, present, and future.
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#816 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 16 2020 - 3:15 PM

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Update; 6/16/20

Camponotus castaneus; Queen #1
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I finally found a live queen of this species when I accidentally dug her out of her founding cell, while looking for Proceratium specimens. Needless to say, I'm pretty excited to get her colony going! She's a dealate, and was in a founding cell, so its highly likely that she mated. I knew these have been flying for the past week or two, and was going to head out to a dark form population I know of 7 miles from my house on Sunday to dig some queens up. It looks like there's actually a light form population right in my backwoods! I'll head out later this week to try to locate the main population. However, I think they may be on another person's property, so I'll try to get permission to go out there and look.

 

P.s. @ANTdrew, she needs a name!

 

 

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#817 Offline ANTdrew - Posted June 16 2020 - 3:38 PM

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Give her the name of my old queen, Gunnlod.
My two new castaneus queens laid eggs. One dropped her wings.
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#818 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 16 2020 - 3:40 PM

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Give her the name of my old queen, Gunnlod.
My two new castaneus queens laid eggs. One dropped her wings.

She shall be named Gunnlod.

 

It's great to see your queens have laid already! Hopefully my queen will lay soon.


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#819 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted June 19 2020 - 7:07 AM

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#820 Offline CatsnAnts - Posted June 19 2020 - 7:10 AM

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That’s such a nice colony! How many queens are in there?
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