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ID please, UCR #2

Started By BADANT , Jun 30 2019 6:15 PM

Best Answer NickAnter , July 4 2019 - 4:18 PM

They are supposedly very easy.  THA has a video on them with care tips.  If I were you, I would put the queens together to get a larger colony, because they only get a few hundred workers. On a side note, I am hoping to get some tonight.

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#1 Offline BADANT - Posted June 30 2019 - 6:15 PM

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Riverside, CA, USA
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1. Location of collection: UCR parking lot, in the rear of campus, Riverside, CA, USA.

2. Date of collection: 6/9/2019, at about 9:30pm.
3. Habitat of collection: Dirt in the parkway between a road and a parking lot
4. Length: 3mm
5. Coloration, hue, pattern and texture: Dark appearance to the naked eye. It looked orangish/red upon closer imaging.
6. Distinguishing characteristics: Lack of petiole, thorax/mesosoma appears to go right into the gaster.
7. Anything else distinctive: Nothing that I have the skills to notice at this time.
8. Nest description: It’s nest was at the edge of the sidewalk, with over 30 of her kind. They were wondering around with no apparent direction.

9. Nuptial flight time and date: Nuptial flight is unknown, but all the queens had no wings. Had I believed they were queens, I would have gotten more specimens. I collected 4, however, I have to work on my handling of such small queens.

 

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#2 Offline NickAnter - Posted June 30 2019 - 6:27 PM

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Try to not be so close with the camera. I need a clearer pic. It does not need to be super zoomed in.

Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#3 Offline BADANT - Posted June 30 2019 - 7:15 PM

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my bad, I'll change my approach to photo taking


#4 Offline gcsnelling - Posted July 1 2019 - 3:00 AM

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Also if you can take the photos before tubing them it would help, the tubes curvature really distorts things.


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#5 Offline BADANT - Posted July 3 2019 - 4:21 PM

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Hopefully these are better pictures


#6 Offline NickAnter - Posted July 3 2019 - 6:50 PM

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Looks like Brachymyrmex patagonicus.

Edited by NickAnter, July 3 2019 - 6:51 PM.

Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#7 Offline BADANT - Posted July 4 2019 - 8:40 AM

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Thank you, much appreciated. I'll read up on them to improve my chances of raising a colony.


#8 Offline NickAnter - Posted July 4 2019 - 4:18 PM   Best Answer

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They are supposedly very easy.  THA has a video on them with care tips.  If I were you, I would put the queens together to get a larger colony, because they only get a few hundred workers. On a side note, I am hoping to get some tonight.


Hi there! I went on a 6 month or so hiatus, in part due, and in part cause of the death of my colonies. 

However, I went back to the Sierras, and restarted my collection, which is now as follows:

Aphaenogaster uinta, Camponotus vicinus, Camponotus modoc, Formica cf. aserva, Formica cf. micropthalma, Formica cf. manni, Formica subpolita, Formica cf. subaenescens, Lasius americanus, Manica invidia, Pogonomyrmex salinus, Pogonomyrmex sp. 1, Solenopsis validiuscula, & Solenopsis sp. 3 (new Sierra variant). 

#9 Offline BADANT - Posted July 5 2019 - 12:24 AM

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Thanks, I like to gather info on caring for the species that I find. You are very helpful, not that others aren't. But you are more direct, and I appreciate that. I hope that you found some last night


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